From Page to Place: American Literary Tourism and the Afterlives of Authors [Paperback]

Literary tourism has existed in the United States since at least the early nineteenth century, and now includes sites in almost every corner of the country.From Page to Placeexamines how Americans have taken up this form of tourism, offering an investigation of the places and practices of literary tourism from literary scholars, historians, tour guides, and collectors. The essays here begin to trace for the first time the histories of some of these sites, the rituals associated with literary tourism, and the ways readers and visitors consume popular literature through touristic endeavors.

In addition to the editors, contributors include Rebecca Rego Barry, Susann Bishop, Ben de Bruyn, Erin Hazard, Caroline Hellman, Michelle McClellan, Mara Scanlon, and Klara-Stephanie Szlez?k.

JENNIFER HARRISis associate professor of literature at the University of Waterloo and coeditor of the Norton Critical edition ofThe Coquette and the Boarding School.HILARY IRIS LOWEis director of the Center for Public History and assistant professor of history at Temple University. She is author ofMark Twain Houses and American Literary Tourism.

Acknowledgements    

Introduction    

Jennifer Harris and Hilary Iris Lowe

1. The Eighteenth-Century Author No One Knows and Other Problems: Promoting Jupiter Hammon on Long Island by Jennifer Harris  
2. Step forth and again take up its magic pen: The Authors House as Informal Memorial by Erin Hazard
3. Keeping (the Spirit of) Thoreau Alive in Concord: Reglections on Diversity and Innovation in American Literary Tourism by Klara-Stephanie Szlez?k
4. The Wide, Wide World beyond a Tiny, Deserted Island: At Home with Susan and Anna Warner by Rebecca Rego Barry
5. Afoot with my vision: Whitmania and Tourism in the Digital Age by Mara Scanlon    
6. Commemorating Writers Workplaces: The Case of Mark Twains Study anlSO