The Literary Tourist

The Literary Tourist is a new book written by Nicola J. Watson and published this month in the UK (in December in the US) by Palgrave-MacMillan.

The Literary Tourist.
Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain.

You've already read the book - why visit the place? When and why did readers start visiting sites with literary associations - whether writers' graves, birthplaces, houses, or the setting of their novels? 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 and Burns to Scott, the Brontë sisters, and Thomas Hardy. Indispensable for the student of literature, the travel literature and the tourism of the nineteenth century.

Contents
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

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