The Literary Tourist
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This original, witty, illustrated study, now available for the first time in paperback, offers the first analytical history of the rise and development of literary tourism in nineteenth-century Britain, associated with authors from Shakespeare, Gray, Keats,...
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This original, witty, illustrated study, now available for the first time in paperback, offers the first analytical history of the rise and development of literary tourism in nineteenth-century Britain, associated with authors from Shakespeare, Gray, Keats, Burns and Scott, the Bront sisters, and Thomas Hardy.
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This original, witty, 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, Burns and Scott, the Brontë sisters, and Thomas Hardy. Invaluable for the student of travel and literature of the nineteenth century.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Literary Tourist “
List of Illustrations Introduction: Readers and Places PART I: PLACING THE AUTHOR An Anthology of Corpses Cradles of Genius Homes and Haunts PART II: LOCATING THE FICTIVE Ladies and Lakes Literary Geographies Epilogue: Enchanted Places and Never-Never Lands Index
Autoren-Porträt von N. Watson
NICOLA J. WATSON has taught at Oxford and Harvard, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Literature at the Open University. Her publications include Revolution and the Form of the British Novel, 1790-1825 (1994), At the Limits of Romanticism: Essays in Cultural, Materialist, and Feminist Criticism (with Mary Favret, 1994), an edition of Walter Scott's The Antiquary (2002) and England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy (with Michael Dobson, 2002).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: N. Watson
- 2008, 2006., 244 Seiten, Maße: 13,7 x 21,3 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 0230210929
- ISBN-13: 9780230210929
Sprache:
Englisch
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'absorbing, well-researched and informative' - <EM>The Yorkshire Post</EM>'exceptionally accessible and entertaining' - Samantha Matthews, <EM>TLS</EM>'Watson has produced a book likely to interest readers in both the literary and tourist domains' - Stuart Hannabuss, <EM>Library Review</EM>'Eminently readable and no doubt of interest to a broad audience, <EM>The Literary Tourist</EM> will prove the first reference for Victorianists interested in the ways nineteenth-century readers linked books to places and made literary landmarks the center of the British heritage industry.' - Paul A. Westover, <EM>Victorian Studies</EM> 'Nicola Watson has produced an excellent discussion of the history of literary tourism in Britain.' - Graham Busby, <EM>Archives</EM>
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