From page to place : American literary tourism and the afterlives of authors / edited by Jennifer Harris and Hilary Iris Lowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowe, Hilary Iris, author.

Contributor:

Harris, Jennifer, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary landmarks--United States.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--United States.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts.

Literary landmarks.

United States.

United States--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

viii, 244 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2017]

Summary:

Literary Tourism has existed in the United States since at least the early-nineteenth century, and now includes sites in almost every corner of the country. From Page to Place examines how Americans have taken up this form of tourism, offering an investigation of the places and practices of literary tourism from literary scholars, historians, tour guides, and collectors. The essays here begin to trace for the first time the histories of some of these sites, the rituals associated with literary tourism, and the ways readers and visitors consume popular literature through touristic endeavors. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Jennifer Harris and Hilary Iris Lowe

The eighteenth-century author no one knows and other problems: promoting Jupiter Hammon on Long Island / Jennifer Harris

"Step forth and again take up its magic pen": the author's house as informal memorial / Erin Hazard

Keeping (the spirit of) Thoreau alive in Concord: reflections on diversity and innovation in American literary tourism / Klara-Stephanie Szlezak

The wide, wide world beyond a tiny, deserted island: at home with Susan and Anna Warner / Rebecca Rego Barry

"Afoot with my vision": Whitmania and tourism in the digital age / Mara Scanlon

Commemorating writers' workplaces: the case of Mark Twain's study and quarry farm / Hilary Iris Lowe

"Shut not your doors to me, proud libraries!": the repatriation of Edith Wharton's library / Caroline Hellman

Making a little house: literary tourism at Rocky Ridge Farm / Michelle McClellan

Author homes in coffee table books: half-reading, literary decor, and the good life / Ben De Bruyn

The allure of American authors' homes: surveying nineteenth- and twentieth- century literary guides / Susann Bishop

Appendix: a bibliography of guides for literary tourists.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781625342331

1625342330

9781625342324

1625342322

OCLC:

947146603