Literary Tourism and Nineteenth-Century Culture

by N. Watson (Editor)

Overview

This book offers both an introduction to the vibrant field of literary tourism studies and a selection of cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research. Indispensable for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture, it provides fascinating insights into the reception of, amongst others, Shakespeare, Dickens, Byron and Wordsworth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230222816
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/31/2009
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

POLLY ATKIN is currently researching her doctoral thesis at Lancaster University, UK, in collaboration with The Wordsworth Trust ALISON BOOTH is Professor of English at the University of Virginia, USA SHIRLEY FOSTER is (semi-retired) Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK SARA HASLAM is Lecturer in Literature at the Open University, UK ERIN HAZARD teaches at the University of Chicago, USA HARALD HENDRIX is Professor of Italian Studies and heads the programme in Renaissance Studies at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands GAIL MARSHALL is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK SAMANTHA MATTHEWS is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK JULIAN NORTH is Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Leicester, UK PAMELA CORPRON PARKER is Professor of English and Women's Studies and Chair of the Department of English at Whitworth University, Spokane, Washington, USA DIANE ROBERTS is Professor at the University of Florida, USA BARBARA SCHAFF teaches British Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Munich, Germany MARGARET D. STETZ is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware, USA LINDY STIEBEL is Professor of English Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa JULIA THOMAS is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, Cardiff University, UK PAUL WESTOVER is Assistant Professor of English at Brigham Young University, Utah, USA KARYN WILSON-COSTA is currently finishing her PhD, and lives and teaches near Marseilles, France

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors Introduction; N.J.Watson From Early Modern to Romantic Literary Tourism: a Diachronical Perspective; H.Hendrix Making Their Mark: Writing the Nineteenth-century Poet's Grave; S.Matthews The Land of Burns: Between Myth and Heritage; K.Wilson-Costa Literary Biography and the Making of the Poet's House; J.North Building the Author's House: Abbotsford and Wayside; E.Hazard Bringing Down the House: Restoring Shakespeare's Birthplace; J.Thomas Women Re-read Shakespeare Country; G.Marshall Ghosting Grasmere: the Musealisation of Dove Cottage; P.Atkin John Murray's Handbooks to Italy: Making Tourism Literary; B.Schaff Selling Literary Tourism to the Literati: The Bookman in the Early 1890s; M.D.Stetz A woman's Place: Elizabeth Gaskell and Literary Tourism; P.Corpron Parker Rambles in Literary London; N.J.Watson Home, Country, World: Modes of Dickensian Time-travel; A.Booth Wessex, Literary Pilgrims, and Thomas Hardy; S.Haslam Americans and Anti-tourism; S.Foster Take-away Heritage: Or, How America 'Inherited' Literary Tourism; P.Westover Uncle Tom in Paradise: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Florida Tourism; D.Roberts On the Trail of Rider Haggard in South Africa; L.Stiebel Index