Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1: Tours, Texts, Houses, and Things
English Professors on Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage and Tourism
A Grammar of Touristic Motives
Making a Tour and Writing It: Homes and Haunts Narratives
Country Houses, Gothic, and Tourism with Jane Austen
Literary Biography, Museums, and the Small Eponymous Collection
The Blue Plaque Scheme
Author Country
Reading the Haunted Spaces of Museums
Things
2: Verifying Pilgrimage
Voice, Rhetoric, and the Nonfiction of Prosopography
Washington Irving as Belated Pilgrim
Irving on Avon
The English Deer-Slayer: Manly Romance
William Howitt Arrives at Homes and Haunts
Anna Maria Hall and S. C. Hall: A Collaboration
Advertising Elbert Hubbard
3: Ladies with Pets and Flowers; with Graveyards and Windswept Moors
En Route to Our Village
Women, Men, and Pets in a Literary Gallery
The Pilgrimage to Three Mile Cross
Elizabeth Gaskell in Knutsford and Plymouth Grove
In Haworth with the Brontës
4: Tenants in Author Country
Wordsworthshire: Howitt, Martineau, and the Turf of the Lakes
Longfellow in National Headquarters
Park Service
A Concord Encounter
Hawthorne's (Briefly) Home
James in and around Shakespearean Homes
A "Little" Past on the Hudson River
Haunting Lamb House
5: The Sage, his Wife, the Maid, and her Lover: Reconstructing a Literary House Museum with Virginia Woolf
Carlyle Productions: Portraits of Home Life
Posthumous No. 24 Cheyne Row
Virginia Woolf and Haunting Memorial Houses
Little Journeys to Chelsea, Bloomsbury, and Monk's House
6: Haunting Dickens World: To Be Continued
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Alison Booth is Professor of English and Academic Director, Scholars Lab, at the University of Virginia

Reviews

Booth proves herself an insightful and erudite travelling companion for her readers. The sum total of her expeditions is a distinctive, perceptive, and fascinating book-a valuable contribution to a burgeoning field of interdisciplinary study.
*Lee Jackson, Author of Walking Dickens' London (Shire Publications, 2012), Dirty Old London (Yale UP, 2014), and Palaces of Pleasure (Yale UP, 2019)*

Booth's journeys to the homes and haunts of nineteenth-century authors illuminate the significance of an often over-looked and undervalued kinetic mode of literary reception that continues to impact literary studies in the twenty-first century, and in the process unseats simplistic distinctions between academic and amateur engagement with authors in place.
*Amber Pouliot, Woolf Studies Annual *

Booth tracks the growth of literary tourism as a middle-class, aspirational form of travel, and teases out its relationship to nationalism and regionalism as well as its reliance on nineteenth-century ideologies of genius, domesticity, and privacy.
*Andrea Henderson, Studies in English Literature*

Booth's detailed description and reappraisal of the neglected genre is original ... Written for a broad audience in a communal voice, with engaging narration that mixes intimacy and distance, topo-biography is proposed, half-seriously, as a model for narrowing the gap between highbrow and middlebrow.
*Samantha Matthews, Times Literary Supplement*