Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 684 g
Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 684 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-875909-6
Verlag: ACADEMIC
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 Brontës, 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.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
Weitere Infos & Material
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1: Tours, Texts, Houses, and Things
- English Professors on Pilgrimage
- Pilgrimage and Tourism
- A Grammar of Touristic Motives
- Making a Tour and Writing It: Homes and Haunts Narratives
- Country Houses, Gothic, and Tourism with Jane Austen
- Literary Biography, Museums, and the Small Eponymous Collection
- The Blue Plaque Scheme
- Author Country
- Reading the Haunted Spaces of Museums
- Things
- 2: Verifying Pilgrimage
- Voice, Rhetoric, and the Nonfiction of Prosopography
- Washington Irving as Belated Pilgrim
- Irving on Avon
- The English Deer-Slayer: Manly Romance
- William Howitt Arrives at Homes and Haunts
- Anna Maria Hall and S. C. Hall: A Collaboration
- Advertising Elbert Hubbard
- 3: Ladies with Pets and Flowers; with Graveyards and Windswept Moors
- En Route to Our Village
- Women, Men, and Pets in a Literary Gallery
- The Pilgrimage to Three Mile Cross
- Elizabeth Gaskell in Knutsford and Plymouth Grove
- In Haworth with the Brontës
- 4: Tenants in Author Country
- Wordsworthshire: Howitt, Martineau, and the Turf of the Lakes
- Longfellow in National Headquarters
- Park Service
- A Concord Encounter
- Hawthorne's (Briefly) Home
- James in and around Shakespearean Homes
- A "Little" Past on the Hudson River
- Haunting Lamb House
- 5: The Sage, his Wife, the Maid, and her Lover: Reconstructing a Literary House Museum with Virginia Woolf
- Carlyle Productions: Portraits of Home Life
- Posthumous No. 24 Cheyne Row
- Virginia Woolf and Haunting Memorial Houses
- Little Journeys to Chelsea, Bloomsbury, and Monk's House
- 6: Haunting Dickens World: To Be Continued
- Bibliography
- Index
