Literature and tourism / edited by Mike Robinson and Hans Christian Andersen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robinson, Mike, 1960-

Andersen, Hans Christian, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heritage tourism.

Travel in literature.

Literary journeys.

Physical Description:

xix, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2002.

Summary:

Literature -- through both its texts and its authors -- has often been an important inspiration for tourists. And tourism, in turn, has long inspired literature. Through the analysis of literature from North America, the British Isles and Europe drawn from contrasting periods and across a range of genres and forms, Literature and Tourism provides a detailed and in-depth explanation of the changing interrelationship between literature and tourism.

Contents:

1. Reading Between the Lines: Literature and the Creation of Touristic Spaces / Mike Robinson, Hans Christian Andersen 1

2. Between and Beyond the Pages: Literature-Tourism Relationships / Mike Robinson 39

3. 'Inside' and 'Outside' Writings on Spain: Their Relationship to Spanish Tourism / Michael Barke 80

4. 'Frizzling in the Sun': Robert Graves and the Development of Mass Tourism in the Balearic Islands / John W. Presley 105

5. Nevil Shute and the Landscape of England: An Opportunity for Literary Tourism / David T. H. Weir 119

6. Tourism Comes to Haworth / Robert Barnard 143

7. Tourists and the Cultural Construction of Haworth's Literary Landscape / Sarah Tetley, Bill Bramwell 155

8. Cultural Gatekeepers in the L. M. Montgomery Tourist Industry / Patricia Cormack, Clare Fawcett 171

9. The Two Mark Twains as Tourists / Lawrence I. Berkove 191

10. Matthew Arnold's Guerilla in the Glade: The Politics and Poetics of Tourism / Donald Ulin 208

11. Literature, Tourism and the Grand Tour / John Towner 226

12. La Serenissima: Dreams, Love and Death in Venice / Graham M. S. Dann 239

13. African Sublime: The Dark Continent Joins the Grand Tour / Amber Vogel 279.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

082645920X

OCLC:

50615232