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Literary Tourism and Nineteenth-Century Culture Also by Nicola J. Watson At the Limits of Romanticism: Essays in Cultural, Materialist, and Feminist Criticism (co-edited with Mary Favret) England’s Elizabeth: an Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy (co-authored with Michael Dobson) Revolution and the Form of the British Novel, 1790–1825: Intercepted Letters, Interrupted Seductions The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain Literary Tourism and Nineteenth-Century Culture Edited by Nicola J. Watson Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Nicola J. Watson 2009 Individual chapters © contributors 2009 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-0-230-22281-6 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin's Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-30842-2 ISBN 978-0-230-23410-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230234109 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 Contents Notes on the Contributors vii Introduction 1 Nicola J. Watson 1 From Early Modern to Romantic Literary Tourism: A Diachronical Perspective 13 Harald Hendrix 2 Making Their Mark: Writing the Poet’s Grave 25 Samantha Matthews 3 The Land of Burns: between Myth and Heritage 37 Karyn Wilson-Costa 4 Literary Biography and the House of the Poet 49 Julian North 5 The Author’s House: Abbotsford and Wayside 63 Erin Hazard 6 Bringing Down the House: Restoring the Birthplace 73 Julia Thomas 7 Ghosting Grasmere: the Musealisation of Dove Cottage 84 Polly Atkin 8 Women Re-Read Shakespeare Country 95 Gail Marshall 9 John Murray’s Handbooks to Italy: Making Tourism Literary 106 Barbara Schaff 10 Selling Literary Tourism in The Bookman 119 Margaret D. Stetz 11 Elizabeth Gaskell and Literary Tourism 128 Pamela Corpron Parker v 9780230_222816_01_prexii.indd v 12/18/2008 3:38:03 PM vi Contents 12 Rambles in Literary London 139 Nicola J. Watson 13 Time-Travel in Dickens’ World 150 Alison Booth 14 Wessex, Literary Pilgrims, and Thomas Hardy 164 Sara Haslam 15 Americans and Anti-Tourism 175 Shirley Foster 16 How America ‘Inherited’ Literary Tourism 184 Paul Westover 17 Harriet Beecher Stowe and Florida Tourism 196 Diane Roberts 18 On the Trail of Rider Haggard in South Africa 210 Lindy Stiebel Index 221 Notes on the Contributors Polly Atkin is currently researching her doctoral thesis ‘A Place Re-Imagined: The Literary, Cultural and Spatial Construction of Dove Cottage, Grasmere’ at Lancaster University in collaboration with The Wordsworth Trust under the AHRC’s Landscape and Environment Scheme. Her first degree was from Queen Mary, University of London (English Literature, First Class BA hons), followed by a Master’s in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. Alison Booth is Professor of English at the University of Virginia, and the author of Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (Cornell University Press, 1992) and How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present (University of Chicago Press, 2004; winner of the Barbara Penny Kanner prize). Editor of an essay collection, Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure (University Press of Virginia, 1993) and of the forth- coming Longman Cultural Edition of Wuthering Heights, she is also the co-editor, with Paul Hunter and Kelly Mays, of the Norton Introduction to Literature. With longstanding interests in the constructions of author- ship, literary history, gender, and narrative – in particular, collective biography, her research and teaching have spanned nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature. Her articles have appeared in Victorian Studies, Journal of Victorian Culture, Kenyon Review, American Literary History, and elsewhere. Portions of her current book- length study, ‘Homes and Haunts: Transatlantic Author Country,’ are published or forthcoming in The Henry James Review, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. She has served as president of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature (2005), as co-organiser of the 3rd Annual North American Victorian Studies Association Conference (2005), and as judge of both Perkins (Narrative) and Lowell (MLA) book prizes. Shirley Foster is (semi-retired) Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests are in Victorian women’s fiction, especially Elizabeth Gaskell, and travel writing, both British and American. She has published widely in both areas, including a literary biography of Gaskell, a co-edited (with Sara Mills) anthology of women’s travel writing, and articles on nineteenth-century Americans vii 9780230_222816_01_prexii.indd vii 12/18/2008 3:38:03 PM viii Notes on the Contributors in Britain and Europe. She has also edited two of Gaskell’s novels, Sylvia’s Lovers for Penguin, and Mary Barton for World’s Classics. She is just start- ing new research on gardens and literature, a project undertaken with a colleague at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Sara Haslam is Lecturer in Literature at the Open University. She is the author of Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, The Novel and the Great War (2002) and editor of Ford’s England and the English (2003), as well as of Ford Madox Ford and the City (2005), the fourth volume of International Ford Madox Ford Studies. She has published essays on Ford, James, modernism, Chekhov and George Eliot, most recently writing on ‘The Good Soldier’ in the Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (2006), and has produced a CD-ROM, The Poetry of Thomas Hardy (2001). Current projects include a book, provisionally entitled ‘Victims of Time and Train’: from Victorian Invention to Modernist Novel. Erin Hazard received her PhD in art history from the University of Chicago in 2007, and is currently teaching in the University of Chicago’s Master of Arts Program in the Humanities. Her disserta- tion, ‘“Realized Day-dreams”: Excursions to Authors’ Homes’ examines nineteenth-century British and American authors’ homes both as archi- tecture and as exhibition sites between 1800 and 1950. An article of the same title is forthcoming in Nineteenth Century Studies. Her awards and honours include a Henry Luce/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship in American Art. Harald Hendrix is Professor of Italian Studies and heads the pro- gramme in Renaissance Studies at the University of Utrecht. Within the Utrecht Research Institute for History and Culture he leads the group on Textual Culture. He has published widely on the European reception of Italian Renaissance and Baroque authors (Traiano Boccalini fra erudizione e polemica; Olschki, 1995) and on the early modern aes- thetics of the non-beautiful. He is the editor of Writers’ Houses and the Making of Memory (Routledge, 2007) and has co-edited six volumes in the series, Utrecht Renaissance Studies (Amsterdam UP): De Vrouw in de Renaissance (1994), Kunstenaars en opdrachtgevers (1996), Oud en lelijk. Ouderdom in de cultuur van de Renaissance (1996), Vreemd volk. Beeldvorming over buitenlanders in de vroegmoderne tijd (1998), De grenzen van het lichaam. Innerlijk en uiterlijk in de Renaissance (1999), Beschaafde burgers. Burgerlijkheid in de vroegmoderne tijd (2001). He is currently pre- paring a book on the cultural history of writers’ houses in Italy, from Petrarch to the present day. Notes on the Contributors ix Gail Marshall is Reader in Nineteenth-century Literature at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of Actresses on the Victorian Stage (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and books on Victorian fiction, as well as articles on subjects including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Helen Faucit, Ellen Terry, and Victorian sculpture. She has edited volumes on George Eliot, Victorian Shakespeare and is editor of the Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle (2007). She is in the process of finishing a monograph on Shakespeare and Victorian Women. Samantha Matthews is Lecturer in Victorian literature at the University of Sheffield, and has taught at Goldsmiths College and University College, London. She is the author of Poetical Remains: Poets’ Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2004), and has wide-ranging interests in the nineteenth century, par- ticularly in material culture, the cemetery, literary London, afterlife and reception theory, book history, the culture of albums and autographs, and reading practices. Julian North is Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Leicester.

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