Homes and haunts : touring writers' shrines and countries / Alison Booth. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Booth, Alison, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary landmarks--United States.

Literary landmarks.

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

Authors, American.

Literary landmarks--Great Britain.

Authors, English--Homes and haunts--Great Britain.

Authors, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

An interdisciplinary study ranging from 1820-1940, 'Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries' unites museum and tourism studies, book history, narrative theory, theories of gender, space, and things, and other approaches to depict and interpret the haunting experiences of exhibited houses and the curious history of topo-biographical writing about famous authors. In illustrated chapters that blend Victorian and recent first-person encounters that range from literary shrines and plaques to guidebooks, memoirs, portraits, and monuments, Alison Booth discusses pilgrims such as William and Mary Howitt, Anna Maria and Samuel Hall, and Elbert Hubbard, and magnetic hosts and guests as Washington Irving, Wordsworth, Martineau, Longfellow, Hawthorne, James, and Dickens.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 8, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-181972-7