Screen LibraryLiterary tourism and the British Isles : history, imagination, and the politics of place /
"An interdisciplinary exploration of literary tourism's role in shaping how locations in the British and Irish Isles have been seen, narrated, and valued"--
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Lexington Books,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham, MD : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"An interdisciplinary exploration of literary tourism's role in shaping how locations in the British and Irish Isles have been seen, narrated, and valued"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xx, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781498581233 1498581234 |
| Index Number: | PR109 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Call Number: | I106/L776-7 |
| Contents: | Introduction: imagining the British Isles for travelers: the place of literature and history / Luann McCracken Fletcher -- Part One: Literature and landscape. Pictorializing the British Isles for young Americans / Dori Griffin -- Mist in "The West": literatures of travel and landscape in the western British -- Irish isles, c. 1880-1940 / Gareth Roddy -- Shakespearean bankside walk: an ecosystem of literary memorials / Erin Katherine Kelly -- Eco-literary tourism in Wordsworth country / Seth T. Reno and Crystie R. Deuter -- Wild, bleak moors: literary landscaping and the re-ruralisation of "Brontë Country" / Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins -- Part Two: "Real" history. Stowe actually / Lance M. Neckar and Sarah Whitney -- Writers' house museums: English literature in the heart and on the ground / Linda Young -- "Scott-land" and Outlander: inventing Scotland for armchair tourists / Luann McCracken Fletcher -- Part Three: "Place" and popular culture. Limehouse: the opiate of the masses / Holly-Gale Millette -- 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. |