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  • Literary tourism and nineteenth-century culture[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 306.4/81909034
    書名/作者: Literary tourism and nineteenth-century culture/ edited by Nicola J.Watson.
    其他作者: Watson, Nicola J.,
    出版者: Basingstoke [England] ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
    面頁冊數: xi, 230 p. ;; 23 cm.
    附註: Papers presented at the conference "Literary tourism and nineteenth-century culture", held inLondon at the Institute for English Studies in June 2007.
    標題: Authors, English - Congresses. - Homes and haunts
    標題: Authors, American - Congresses. - Homes and haunts
    標題: Literary landmarks - Congresses.
    標題: Cultural geography - Congresses. - History - 19th century
    標題: Tourism - Congresses. - History - 19th century
    標題: Great Britain - Fiction.
    標題: United States - Economic conditions - To 1865.
    ISBN: 9780230234109
    ISBN: 0230234100
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: From early modern to Romantic literary tourism : a diachronical perspective / Harald Hendrix -- Making their mark : writing the poet's grave / Samantha Matthews -- The land of Burns : between myth and heritage / Karyn Wilson-Costa -- Literary biography and the house of the poet / Julian North-- The author's house : Abbotsford and Wayside / Erin Hazard -- Bringing down the house : restoringthe birthplace / Julia Thomas-- Ghosting grasmere : the musealisation of Dove Cottage / Polly Atkin-- Women re-read Shakespeare country / Gail Marshall -- John Murray's Handbooks to Italy : making tourism literary / Barbara Schaff -- Selling literary tourism in The bookman / Margaret D. Stetz -- Elizabeth Gaskell and literary tourism / Pamela Corpron Parker -- Rambles in literaryLondon / Nicola J. Watson -- Time-travel in Dickens' world / Alison Booth -- Wessex, literary pilgrims, and Thomas Hardy / Sara Haslam -- Americans and anti-tourism / Shirley Foster -- How America 'inherited' literarytourism / Paul Westover -- Harriet Beecher Stowe and Florida tourism / Diane Roberts -- On the trail of Rider Haggard in South Africa / Lindy Stiebel.
    摘要、提要註: Offering an introduction to the new and vibrant field of literary tourism together with a wide-ranging selection of cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research, this volume is indispensable for all students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture, but especially forthose with interests in travel writing, literary biography, the relations of literature and place, and the production of national identity through literary heritage. Together these essays explore the rise of interest in visiting and memorializing literary places in the nineteenth century, examining the development of writers b2 s homes and haunts as tourist destinations and itineraries, and the associated rise of the album, literary biography, the travelogue, and the guidebook, amongst othernovel genres. Ranging across Britain, continental Europe and America, it provides fascinating insights into the reception of, amongst others,Petrarch, Shakespeare, Burns, Byron, Wordsworth, Scott, Letitia Landon, Hawthorne, Dickens, Gaskell, Hardy, Stowe, Haggard and Kipling by British and American tourists.
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