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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.
LuAnn McCracken Fletcher is professor of English at Cedar Crest College.
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Imagining the British Isles for Travelers: The Place of Literature and HistoryLuAnn McCracken FletcherPart One: Literature and LandscapeChapter One: Pictorializing the British Isles for Young AmericansDori GriffinChapter Two: Mist in “the West”: Literatures of Travel and Landscape in the Western British-Irish Isles, c. 1880-1940Gareth RoddyChapter Three: Shakespearean Bankside Walk: An Ecosystem of Literary MemorialsErin Katherine KellyChapter Four: Eco-Literary Tourism in Wordsworth CountrySeth T. Reno and Crystie R. DeuterChapter Five: Wild, Bleak Moors: Literary Landscaping and the Re-Ruralisation of “Brontë Country”Bryonny Goodwin-HawkinsPart Two: “Real” HistoryChapter Six: Stowe ActuallyLance M. Neckar and Sarah WhitneyChapter Seven: Writers’ House Museums: English Literature in the Heart and on the GroundLinda YoungChapter Eight: “Scott-land” and Outlander: Inventing Scotland for Armchair TouristsLuAnn McCracken FletcherPart Three: “Place” and Popular CultureChapter Nine: Limehouse: The Opiate of the MassesHolly-Gale MilletteChapter Ten: Coping with the Code: Exploring the Effects of The Da Vinci Code on Rosslyn ChapelBrian de RuiterEpilogue: A Portkey to Potter: Literary Tourism and the Place of ImaginationLuAnn McCracken FletcherIndexAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors
In 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.