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Speaking Stones
My very last post in this series! It’s about how whole houses have been made to speak in the author’s voice, so making the long-past and long-dead into a perpetual, first person presence. I think the reason for doing … Continue reading
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Tagged Dorothy Wordsworth, Dove Cottage, history of reading, Lerici, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects
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Deaths
To what extent or in what sense does an author die? If an author does not (quite) die, then what to do with the body? The history of the fates that have befallen individual authors’ corpses is long, varied, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adonais, Charles Dickens, Dickens Museum, Ermenonville, French Revolution, history of reading, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Keats, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Panthéon Paris, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley Memorial, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, University College Oxford
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