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Homes and Haunts

Homes and Haunts

Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries

by Alison Booth
Hardback
Publication Date: 28/07/2016

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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.
ISBN:
9780198759096
9780198759096
Category:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
28-07-2016
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
346
Dimensions (mm):
240x168x24mm
Weight:
0.64kg
Alison Booth

Alison Booth was born in Melbourne and brought up in Sydney, and spent over two decades studying, living and working in the UK before returning to Australia in 2002.

Married with two grownup daughters, she is a professor at the Australian National University and an ANU Public Policy Fellow.

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