| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 131 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Culture trails |
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Culture trails.
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| Contents |
The golden ticket -- Lion hunting in Scotland -- Panting up the endless Alp of life -- Seething in Yorkshire -- Oh for a muse of fire! -- Freud, actually -- How to get there |
| Summary |
The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked and talked. Even Shakespeare was roped in, as Victorian entrepreneurs transformed quiet Stratford-upon-Avon into a combination shrine and tourist trap. Stratford continues to lure the tourists today, as do many other sites of literary pilgrimage throughout Britain. And our modern age could have no better guide to such places than Simon Goldhill |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-129) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 -- Homes and haunts -- Scotland
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Homes and haunts -- England
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Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Haworth
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Stratford-upon-Avon
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London
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Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. |
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. |
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Scott, Walter, 1771-1832. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. |
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Literary landmarks -- Great Britain
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Homes.
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Literary landmarks.
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Travel.
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Great Britain -- Description and travel.
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England.
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England -- Haworth.
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England -- London.
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England -- Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Great Britain.
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Scotland.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226301723 |
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0226301729 |
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9786613281616 |
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6613281611 |
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1283281619 |
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9781283281614 |
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