Literary Tourism and Nineteenth-Century Culture

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Notes on the Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 14
1 From Early Modern to Romantic Literary Tourism: A Diachronical Perspective......Page 26
2 Making Their Mark: Writing the Poet’s Grave......Page 38
3 The Land of Burns: between Myth and Heritage......Page 50
4 Literary Biography and the House of the Poet......Page 62
5 The Author’s House: Abbotsford and Wayside......Page 76
6 Bringing Down the House: Restoring the Birthplace......Page 86
7 Ghosting Grasmere: the Musealisation of Dove Cottage......Page 97
8 Women Re-Read Shakespeare Country......Page 108
9 John Murray’s Handbooks to Italy: Making Tourism Literary......Page 119
10 Selling Literary Tourism in The Bookman......Page 132
11 Elizabeth Gaskell and Literary Tourism......Page 141
12 Rambles in Literary London......Page 152
13 Time-Travel in Dickens’ World......Page 163
14 Wessex, Literary Pilgrims, and Thomas Hardy......Page 177
15 Americans and Anti-Tourism......Page 188
16 How America ‘Inherited’ Literary Tourism......Page 197
17 Harriet Beecher Stowe and Florida Tourism......Page 209
18 On the Trail of Rider Haggard in South Africa......Page 223
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D......Page 236
H......Page 237
K......Page 238
L......Page 239
P......Page 240
S......Page 241
V......Page 242
Z......Page 243