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Homes and Haunts - Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries (Hardcover)
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Homes and Haunts - Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries (Hardcover)
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This is the first full-length study of literary tourism in North
America as well as Britain, and a unique exploration of popular
response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or
"countries " associated with their lives and works. 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.
Virginia Woolf's feminist response to homes and haunts shapes a
chapter on Mary Russell Mitford, Gaskell, and the Brontes, and
another on the Carlyles' house and Monk's House. Booth rediscovers
collections of personalities, haunted shrines, and imaginative
re-enactments that have been submerged by a century of academic
literary criticism.
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