Cedar Crest College Alumnae Association – 2019 Cedar Crest College Alumnae Association Auction
Auction Ends: Mar 18, 2019 09:00 PM EDT

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Literary Tourism and Bristish Isles

Item Number
410
Estimated Value
Priceless
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48 USD to harmontm
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Item Description

This book will be signed by the editor, Dr. LuAnn McCracken Fletcher, Cedar Crest College Professor of English. A personalized message can be included at the winning bidder's request.

 

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.

 

 

Donated By:

LuAnn McCracken Fletcher