"Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by William Howitt, first published in 1847, that features the biographical accounts of the most distinguished literary figures among the British. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ Geoffrey Chaucer_x000D_ Edmund Spenser_x000D_ Shakespeare_x000D_ Abraham Cowley_x000D_ John Milton_x000D_ Samuel Butler_x000D_ John Dryden_x000D_ Joseph Addison_x000D_ John Gay_x000D_ Alexander Pope_x000D_ Dean Swift_x000D_ James Thomson_x000D_ William Shenstone_x000D_ Chatterton_x000D_ Thomas Gray_x000D_ Oliver Goldsmith_x000D_ Robert Burns_x000D_ William Cowper_x000D_ Mrs. Tighe_x000D_ John Keats_x000D_ Percy Bysshe Shelley_x000D_ Lord Byron_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ George Crabbe_x000D_ James Hogg_x000D_ Samuel Taylor Coleridge_x000D_ Felicia Hemans_x000D_ L. E. L._x000D_ Sir Walter Scott_x000D_ Thomas Campbell_x000D_ Robert Southey_x000D_ Joanna Baillie_x000D_ William Wordsworth_x000D_ James Montgomery_x000D_ Walter Savage Landor_x000D_ Leigh Hunt_x000D_ Samuel Rogers_x000D_ Thomas Moore_x000D_ Ebenezer Elliott_x000D_ John Wilson_x000D_ Waller Bryan Procter_x000D_ Alfred Tennyson_x000D_ Concluding Remarks

Literary Tourism and the British Isles: History, Imagination, and the Politics of Place explores literary tourism’s role in shaping how locations in the British-Irish Isles have been seen, historicized, and valued. Within its chapters, contributors approach these topics from vantage points such as feminism, cultural studies, geographic and mobilities paradigms, rural studies, ecosystems, philosophy of history, dark tourism, and marketing analyses. They examine guidebooks and travelogues; oral history, pseudo-history, and absent history; and literature that spans Renaissance drama to contemporary popular writers such as Dan Brown, Diana Gabaldon, and J.K. Rowling. Places discussed in the collection include “the West;” Wordsworth Country and Brontë Country; Stowe and Scotland; the Globe Theatre and its environs; Limehouse, Rosslyn Chapel, and the imaginary locations of the Harry Potter series. Taken as a whole, this collection illuminates some of the ways by which “the British Isles” have been created by literary and historical narratives, and, in turn, will continue to be seen as places of cultural importance by visitors, guidebooks, and site sponsors alike.

This is the first full-length study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or "countries" associated with their lives and works. An interdisciplinary study ranging from 1820-1940, Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries unites museum and tourism studies, book history, narrative theory, theories of gender, space, and things, and other approaches to depict and interpret the haunting experiences of exhibited houses and the curious history of topo-biographical writing about famous authors. In illustrated chapters that blend Victorian and recent first-person encounters that range from literary shrines and plaques to guidebooks, memoirs, portraits, and monuments, Alison Booth discusses pilgrims such as William and Mary Howitt, Anna Maria and Samuel Hall, and Elbert Hubbard, and magnetic hosts and guests as Washington Irving, Wordsworth, Martineau, Longfellow, Hawthorne, James, and Dickens. Virginia Woolf's feminist response to homes and haunts shapes a chapter on Mary Russell Mitford, Gaskell, and the Brontes, and another on the Carlyles' house and Monk's House. Booth rediscovers collections of personalities, haunted shrines, and imaginative re-enactments that have been submerged by a century of academic literary criticism.