{"product_id":"literary-tourism-and-the-british-isles-9781498581233","title":"Literary Tourism and the British Isles","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterary 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 be\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an admirably wide-ranging journey through literary tourism in the British Isles—from the Renaissance to the present—the contributors to this book provide fascinating, important, and rich analyses of the construction of literary and historical narratives and imaginaries about places and spaces in Britain and Ireland. -- Paul Ward, Edge Hill University\u003cbr\u003eA fresh and richly diverse set of meditations upon the ways the locations and landscapes of the British Isles have been imagined for and by literary tourists. Essential reading on, in particular, the rhetoric of enchantment from the nineteenth century to the present. -- Nicola Watson, The Open University\u003cbr\u003eIn essays investigating many attractions, this interdisciplinary collection advances studies of literary tourism by adding dimensions to the map of cultural commemoration in the British-Irish Isles. -- Alison Booth, University of Virginia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements 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  Index About the Editor About the Contributors","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040834060631,"sku":"9781498581233","price":98.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498581233.jpg?v=1750947997","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literary-tourism-and-the-british-isles-9781498581233","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}