The Literary Tourist Readers and Places in

This original, witty, illustrated study, now available for the first time in paperback, offers the first analytical history of the rise and development of literary tourism in nineteenth-century Britain, associated with authors from Shakespeare, Gray, Keats, Burns and Scott, the Bront sisters, and Thomas Hardy.

NICOLA J. WATSON has taught at Oxford and Harvard, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Literature at the Open University. Her publications include Revolution and the Form of the British Novel, 1790-1825 (1994), At the Limits of Romanticism: Essays in Cultural, Materialist, and Feminist Criticism (with Mary Favret, 1994), an edition of Walter Scott's The Antiquary (2002) and England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy (with Michael Dobson, 2002).

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Introduction: Readers and Places	p. 1
Placing the Author	p. 21
An Anthology of Corpses	p. 23
Poets cornered	p. 23
Grave matters	p. 32
In a country churchyard	p. 39
In a city cemetery	p. 47
Cradles of Genius	p. 56
Shakespeare's Birthplace	p. 59
Burns's Birthplace	p. 68
`The Land of Burns' and `Shakespeare's Stratford'	p. 77
Homes and Haunts	p. 90
Abbotsford	p. 93
Haworth	p. 106
Locating the Fictive	p. 129
Ladies and Lakes	p. 131
La Nouvelle Heloise (1761)	p. 133
The Lady of the Lake (1810)	p. 150
Lorna Doone (1869)	p. 163
Literary Geographies	p. 169
Literary countries	p. 169
Hardy's Wessex	p. 176
Epilogue: Enchanted Places & Never Lands	p. 201
Notes	p. 213
Index	p. 232
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The Literary Tourist Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain

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