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From Page to Place : American Literary Tourism and the Afterlives of Authors / edited by Jennifer Harris and Hilary Iris Lowe.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781613764671
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS141 .F766 2017
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Contents:
Jennifer Harris and Hilary Iris Lowe -- The eighteenth-century author no one knows and other problems: promoting Jupiter Hammon on Long Island / Jennifer Harris -- "Step forth and again take up its magic pen": the author's house as informal memorial / Erin Hazard -- Keeping (the spirit of) Thoreau alive in Concord: reflections on diversity and innovation in American literary tourism / Klara-Stephanie Szlezak -- The wide, wide world beyond a tiny, deserted island: at home with Susan and Anna Warner / Rebecca Rego Barry -- "Afoot with my vision": Whitmania and tourism in the digital age / Mara Scanlon -- Commemorating writers' workplaces: the case of Mark Twain's study and quarry farm / Hilary Iris Lowe -- "Shut not your doors to me, proud libraries!": the repatriation of Edith Wharton's library / Caroline Hellman -- Making a little house: literary tourism at Rocky Ridge Farm / Michelle McClellan -- Author homes in coffee table books: half-reading, literary decor, and the good life / Ben De Bruyn -- The allure of American authors' homes: surveying nineteenth- and twentieth- century literary guides / Susann Bishop -- Appendix: a bibliography of guides for literary tourists.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Jennifer Harris and Hilary Iris Lowe -- The eighteenth-century author no one knows and other problems: promoting Jupiter Hammon on Long Island / Jennifer Harris -- "Step forth and again take up its magic pen": the author's house as informal memorial / Erin Hazard -- Keeping (the spirit of) Thoreau alive in Concord: reflections on diversity and innovation in American literary tourism / Klara-Stephanie Szlezak -- The wide, wide world beyond a tiny, deserted island: at home with Susan and Anna Warner / Rebecca Rego Barry -- "Afoot with my vision": Whitmania and tourism in the digital age / Mara Scanlon -- Commemorating writers' workplaces: the case of Mark Twain's study and quarry farm / Hilary Iris Lowe -- "Shut not your doors to me, proud libraries!": the repatriation of Edith Wharton's library / Caroline Hellman -- Making a little house: literary tourism at Rocky Ridge Farm / Michelle McClellan -- Author homes in coffee table books: half-reading, literary decor, and the good life / Ben De Bruyn -- The allure of American authors' homes: surveying nineteenth- and twentieth- century literary guides / Susann Bishop -- Appendix: a bibliography of guides for literary tourists.

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