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Literary Tourism and the British Isles: History, Imagination, and the Politics of Place
Literary 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.
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Literary Tourism and the British Isles: History, Imagination, and the Politics of Place
Literary 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.
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Literary Tourism and the British Isles: History, Imagination, and the Politics of Place

Literary Tourism and the British Isles: History, Imagination, and the Politics of Place

Literary Tourism and the British Isles: History, Imagination, and the Politics of Place

Literary Tourism and the British Isles: History, Imagination, and the Politics of Place

Overview

Literary 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781498581233
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 12/10/2018
Pages: 342
Product dimensions: 6.52(w) x 9.12(h) x 1.05(d)

About the Author

LuAnn McCracken Fletcher is professor of English at Cedar Crest College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

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 “Brontë 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



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