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Monthly Archives: December 2019
Effigies
Writers’ animals, explored in an earlier post (https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/literarytourist/?p=226) meditate upon the nature of authorship and writing in relation to the body. This is true also of efforts to represent the author at more or less life-like and life-size, as … Continue reading
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Tagged Hamlet, Hannibal Missouri, history of reading, Huckleberry Finn, James Boswell, John Betjeman, Lichfield, Life of Johnson, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Lyons France, Mark Twain, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Samuel Johnson, St Exupéry, St Pancras Station, Tom Sawyer’s house
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Views
So many objects associated with authors have become iconic because they seem to symbolise authorial imagination. But this is true of views, too, which allow the literary tourist to look with the author’s eye, and to send a postcard … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbotsford, Arthur Ransome, ‘Wild Cat Island’, ‘Wizard of the North’, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Eildon Hills, history of reading, Johann von Goethe, Lake Coniston, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Mina Murray, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Sir Walter Scott, Swallows and Amazons, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Whitby, Windermere
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