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

First edition.

9780191819728 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource : illustrations

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198759096 doi

PS141 .B66 2016eb

810.9

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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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