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Homes and haunts : touring writers' shrines and countries
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Title
Homes and haunts : touring writers' shrines and countries / Alison Booth.
ISBN
9780191819728 (ebook) :
Edition
First edition.
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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Notes
Previously issued in print: 2016.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 8, 2016).
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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.
Variant and related titles
Oxford scholarship online.
Other formats
Print version :
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 26, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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