Literary tourism and nineteenth-century culture
By: edited by Nicola J. Watson.
Contributors: Watson, Nicola J., 1958-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780230222816
Subjects: Authors, English -- Homes and haunts; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts; Literary landmarks; Cultural geography -- History -- 19th century; Tourism -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Notes: Papers presented at the conference  "Literary tourism and nineteenth-century culture", held in London at the Institute for English Studies in June 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From early modern to romantic literary tourism: a diachronical perspective / Harald Hendrix; title: Making their mark: writing the nineteenth-century poet's grave / Samantha Matthews; title: The land of burns: between myth and heritage / Karyn Wilson-Costa; title: Literary biography and the making of the poet's house / Julian North; title: Building the author's house: Abbotsford and Wayside / Erin Hazard; title: Bringing down the house: restoring Shakespeare's birthplace / Julia Thomas; title: Women re-read Shakespeare country / Gail Marshall; title: Ghosting grasmere: the musealisation of Dove Cottage / Polly Atkin; title: John Murray's handbooks to Italy: making tourism literary / Barbara Schaff; title: Selling literary tourism to the literati: the bookman in the early 1890s / Margaret D. Stetz; title: A woman's place: Elizabeth Gaskell and literary tourism / Pamela Corpron Parker; title: Rambles in literary London / Nicola J. Watson; title: Home, country, world: modes of Dickensian time-travel / Alison Booth; title: Wessex, literary pilgrims, and Thomas Hardy / Sara Haslam; title: Americans and anti-tourism / Shirley Foster; title: Take-away heritage: or, how America inherited literary tourism / Paul Westover; title: Uncle Tom in paradise: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Florida tourism / Diane Roberts; title: On the trail of Rider Haggard in South Africa / Lindy Stiebel.