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Keys and Portals
For some writers, and as a result for their admirers, entry to the kingdom of the imagination has been effected or symbolised by different talismanic objects. As a result, they have become iconic as keys or portals to the … Continue reading
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Tagged ‘Tolly’s mouse’, C.S. Lewis, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Hemingford Grey, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, The Children of Green Knowe, The Lion, The Magician’s Nephew, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Thomas de Quincey, Wheaton College
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Garments
Like Joyce’s spectacles, (see https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/literarytourist/?p=209), authorial garments are often called upon to imagine the specifics of the author’s body and the specialness of their imaginative lives. Sometimes this works, sometimes not.
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Tagged Amherst Museum, Brantwood House, Catherine Halley, Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Goethehaus, history of reading, Italienreise, James Joyce, Johann von Goethe, John Ruskin, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Rydal Mount, Samantha Clarke, Weimar
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