A 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. Cover -- Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1: Tours, Texts, Houses, and Things -- ENGLISH PROFESSORS ON PILGRIMAGE -- PILGRIMAGE AND TOURISM -- A GRAMMAR OF TOURISTIC MOTIVES -- MAKING A TOUR AND WRITING IT: HOMES AND HAUNTS NARRATIVES -- COUNTRY HOUSES, GOTHIC, AND TOURISM WITH JANE AUSTEN -- LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, MUSEUMS, AND THE SMALL EPONYMOUS COLLECTION -- THE BLUE PLAQUE SCHEME -- AUTHOR COUNTRY -- READING THE HAUNTED SPACES OF MUSEUMS -- THINGS -- 2: Verifying Pilgrimage -- VOICE, RHETORIC, AND THE NONFICTION OF PROSOPOGRAPHY -- WASHINGTON IRVING AS BELATED PILGRIM -- IRVING ON AVON -- THE ENGLISH DEER-SLAYER: MANLY ROMANCE -- WILLIAM HOWITT ARRIVES AT HOMES AND HAUNTS -- ANNA MARIA HALL AND S. C. HALL: A COLLABORATION -- ADVERTISING ELBERT HUBBARD -- 3: Ladies with Pets and Flowers -- with Graveyards and Windswept Moors -- EN ROUTE TO OUR VILLAGE -- WOMEN, MEN, AND PETS IN A LITERARY GALLERY -- THE PILGRIMAGE TO THREE MILE CROSS -- ELIZABETH GASKELL IN KNUTSFORD AND PLYMOUTH GROVE -- IN HAWORTH WITH THE BRONTËS -- 4: Tenants in Author Country -- WORDSWORTHSHIRE: HOWITT, MARTINEAU, AND THE TURF OF THE LAKES -- LONGFELLOW IN NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS -- PARK SERVICE -- A CONCORD ENCOUNTER -- HAWTHORNE'S (BRIEFLY) HOME -- JAMES IN AND AROUND SHAKESPEAREAN HOMES -- A "LITTLE" PAST ON THE HUDSON RIVER -- HAUNTING LAMB HOUSE -- 5: The Sage, his Wife, the Maid, and her Lover: Reconstructing a Literary House Museum with Virginia Woolf -- CARLYLE PRODUCTIONS: PORTRAITS OF HOME LIFE -- POSTHUMOUS NO. 24 CHEYNE ROW -- VIRGINIA WOOLF AND HAUNTING MEMORIAL HOUSES -- LITTLE JOURNEYS TO CHELSEA, BLOOMSBURY, AND MONK'S HOUSE -- 6: Haunting Dickens World: To Be Continued -- Bibliography -- Index.
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