num_pages: 225
description: Necromanticism is a study of literary readers' compulsion to visit literary homes landscapes and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism's recourse to the dead in its reading writing and canon-making practices.
language: English
title: Necromanticism: Traveling to Meet the Dead, 1750-1860
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan