Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries

by Alison Booth

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198759096
• ISBN13: 9780198759096
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"