Title Necromanticism : travelling to meet the dead, 1750-1860 / Paul Westover

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 217 pages) : illustrations Series Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print. Contents List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Traveling to Meet the Dead -- On Ideal Presence -- The Origins of Literary Tourism -- William Godwin, Necro-Tourism, and the Empirical Afterlife of the Dead -- Imaginary Pilgrimages: Felicia Hemans, Dead Poets, and Romantic Historiography -- Interlude: Necromanticism and Romantic Authorship -- The Transatlantic Invention of 'English' Literary Heritage -- Illustration, Historicism, and Travel: The Legacy of Sir Walter Scott -- Notes -- Works Consulted -- Index Summary Necromanticism is a book about literary tourism--readers' compulsion to visit homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves--in the long Romantic period. With textured case studies involving a range of authors, from William Godwin to Felicia Hemans and Walter Scott, this study describes literary tourism as an essentially Romantic invention, closely tied with what people in the Romantic era felt it meant to read and write. At the same time, it unfolds tourism's importance to Romanticism's canon-making practices, both national and transatlantic. Contributing a fresh understanding of Romantic literary texts in the context of death-studies and travel history, Necromanticism highlights a complex of book-love and memorial ritual that has deeply influenced Anglophone literary culture, both in Britain and in the United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Literary landmarks -- Great Britain Romanticism -- Great Britain Death in literature. Authors, English -- Homes and haunts -- Great Britain Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Literary theory -- English. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- English. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gothic & Romance. Literature. Authors and readers Authors, English -- Homes and haunts Death in literature Literary landmarks Romanticism Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230369498 0230369499

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