Literary Tourism and Nineteenth- Century Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-12
From Early Modern to Romantic Literary Tourism: A Diachronical Perspective....Pages 13-24
Making Their Mark: Writing the Poet’s Grave....Pages 25-36
The Land of Burns: between Myth and Heritage....Pages 37-48
Literary Biography and the House of the Poet....Pages 49-62
The Author’s House: Abbotsford and Wayside....Pages 63-72
Bringing Down the House: Restoring the Birthplace....Pages 73-83
Ghosting Grasmere: the Musealisation of Dove Cottage....Pages 84-94
Women Re-Read Shakespeare Country....Pages 95-105
John Murray’s Handbooks to Italy: Making Tourism Literary....Pages 106-118
Selling Literary Tourism in The Bookman....Pages 119-127
Elizabeth Gaskell and Literary Tourism....Pages 128-138
Rambles in Literary London....Pages 139-149
Time-Travel in Dickens’ World....Pages 150-163
Wessex, Literary Pilgrims, and Thomas Hardy....Pages 164-174
Americans and Anti-Tourism....Pages 175-183
How America ‘Inherited’ Literary Tourism....Pages 184-195
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Florida Tourism....Pages 196-209
On the Trail of Rider Haggard in South Africa....Pages 210-219
Back Matter....Pages 221-230