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