Literary tourism and the British Isles : history, imagination, and the politics of place / edited by LuAnn McCracken Fletcher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fletcher, LuAnn McCracken, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary journeys--Great Britain.

Literary journeys.

Literary landmarks--Great Britain.

Literary landmarks.

Great Britain.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Physical Description:

xx, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

Contents:

Introduction. Imagining the British Isles for travelers : the place of literature and history / LuAnn McCracken Fletcher

Part One: Literature and landscape. 1. Pictorializing the British Isles for young Americans / Dori Griffin ; 2. Mist in "the West" : literatures of travel and landscape in the western British-Irish Isles, c. 1880-1940 / Gareth Roddy ; 3. Shakespearean Bankside walk : an ecosystem of literary memorials / Erin Katherine Kelly ; 4. Eco-literary tourism in Wordsworth country / Seth T. Reno and Crystie R. Deuter ; 5. Wild, bleak moors : literary landscaping and the re-ruralisation of "Brontë country" / Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins

Part two. "Real" history. 6. Stowe actually / Lance M. Neckar and Sarah Whitney ; 7. Writers' house museums : English literature in the heart and on the ground / Linda Young ; 8. "Scott-land" and Outlander : inventing Scotland for armchair tourists / LuAnn McCracken Fletcher

Part three. "Place" and popular culture. 9. Limehouse : the opiate of the masses / Holly-Gale Millette ; 10. Coping with the Code : exploring the effects of the Da Vinci Code on Rosslyn Chapel / Brian de Ruiter

Epilogue. A portkey to Potter : literary tourism and the place of imagination / LuAnn McCracken Fletcher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

1498581234

9781498581233

OCLC:

1053611233