The literary tourist
Subtitle: readers and places in romantic & Victorian Britain
By: Nicola J. Watson.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillian
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781403999924
Subjects: Literary landmarks -- England; Authors, English -- Homes and haunts -- England; Tourism -- England
Description: "This illustrated study offers the first analytical history of the rise and development of literary tourism in nineteenth-century Britain, associated with authors from Shakespeare, Gray, Keats and Burns to Scott, the Bronte sisters and Thomas Hardy. Arguing for the twin importance of the rise of authorial biography and realist fiction in constructing tourist sentiment, practice and sites, this book also offers a survey of the unjustly neglected literary genres associated with such tourism - guidebooks, travel memoirs, essays on the 'homes and haunts' of authors and full-length studies of 'literary geographies'. Indispensable for students of the literature, the travel literature, and the tourism of the nineteenth-century."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Placing the author; title: An anthology of corpses; title: Poets cornered; title: Grave matters; title: In a country churchyard; title: In a city cemetery; title: Cradles of genius; title: Shakespeare's birthplace; title: Burns's birthplace; title: ʻThe land of Burns' and ʻShakespeare's Stratford'; title: Homes and haunts; title: Abbotsford; title: Haworth; title: Pt. 2. Locating the fictive; title: Ladies and lakes La nouvelle Hélöise (1761); title: The lady of the lake (1810); title: Lorna Doone (1869); title: Literary geographies; title: Literary countries; title: Hardy's Wessex; title: Epilogue: Enchanted places and never-never lands.