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OverviewLiterary Tourism and the British Isles: History, Imagination, and the Politics of Place explores literary tourism’s role in shaping how locations in the British-Irish Isles have been seen, historicized, and valued. Within its chapters, contributors approach these topics from vantage points such as feminism, cultural studies, geographic and mobilities paradigms, rural studies, ecosystems, philosophy of history, dark tourism, and marketing analyses. They examine guidebooks and travelogues; oral history, pseudo-history, and absent history; and literature that spans Renaissance drama to contemporary popular writers such as Dan Brown, Diana Gabaldon, and J.K. Rowling. Places discussed in the collection include “the West;” Wordsworth Country and Brontë Country; Stowe and Scotland; the Globe Theatre and its environs; Limehouse, Rosslyn Chapel, and the imaginary locations of the Harry Potter series. Taken as a whole, this collection illuminates some of the ways by which “the British Isles” have been created by literary and historical narratives, and, in turn, will continue to be seen as places of cultural importance by visitors, guidebooks, and site sponsors alike. Full Product DetailsAuthor: LuAnn McCracken Fletcher , Brian de Ruiter , Crystie R. Deuter , Bryonny Goodwin-HawkinsPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 16.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.20cm Weight: 0.658kg ISBN: 9781498581233ISBN 10: 1498581234 Pages: 342 Publication Date: 10 December 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Imagining the British Isles for Travelers: The Place of Literature and History LuAnn McCracken Fletcher Part One: Literature and Landscape Chapter One: Pictorializing the British Isles for Young Americans Dori Griffin Chapter Two: Mist in the West : Literatures of Travel and Landscape in the Western British-Irish Isles, c. 1880-1940 Gareth Roddy Chapter Three: Shakespearean Bankside Walk: An Ecosystem of Literary Memorials Erin Katherine Kelly Chapter Four: Eco-Literary Tourism in Wordsworth Country Seth T. Reno and Crystie R. Deuter Chapter Five: Wild, Bleak Moors: Literary Landscaping and the Re-Ruralisation of Bronte Country Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins Part Two: Real History Chapter Six: Stowe Actually Lance M. Neckar and Sarah Whitney Chapter Seven: Writers' House Museums: English Literature in the Heart and on the Ground Linda Young Chapter Eight: Scott-land and Outlander: Inventing Scotland for Armchair Tourists LuAnn McCracken Fletcher Part Three: Place and Popular Culture Chapter Nine: Limehouse: The Opiate of the Masses Holly-Gale Millette Chapter Ten: 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 Index About the Editor About the ContributorsReviewsIn an admirably wide-ranging journey-from the Renaissance to the present-through literary tourism in the British Isles, the contributors to this book provide fascinating, important and rich analyses of the construction of literary and historical narratives and imaginaries about places and spaces in Britain and Ireland. -- Paul Ward, Edge Hill University In an admirably wide-ranging journey through literary tourism in the British Isles-from the Renaissance to the present-the contributors to this book provide fascinating, important, and rich analyses of the construction of literary and historical narratives and imaginaries about places and spaces in Britain and Ireland. -- Paul Ward, Edge Hill University A fresh and richly diverse set of meditations upon the ways the locations and landscapes of the British Isles have been imagined for and by literary tourists. Essential reading on, in particular, the rhetoric of enchantment from the nineteenth century to the present. -- Nicola Watson, The Open University In essays investigating many attractions, this interdisciplinary collection advances studies of literary tourism by adding dimensions to the map of cultural commemoration in the British-Irish Isles. -- Alison Booth, University of Virginia Author InformationLuAnn McCracken Fletcher is professor of English at Cedar Crest College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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