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Exit through the Gift Shop: Leaving things
In my last post I discussed the Victorian practice of bringing books to read in the authors’ homes and haunts. Today, I will be turning from what visitors brought to writers’ homes, to what they left behind. These two things … Continue reading
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Tagged An Account of the Principal Pleasure Tours of England and Wales, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Stratford-Upon-Avon, William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare’s New Place
Let me fast-forward two centuries from my last post, fly back across the Atlantic, and transport you to Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon. The redevelopment of New Place commemorating Shakespeare’s death in 2016 offers a test of the extent to which the idea … Continue reading
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Tagged history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, New Place, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Romantic Shakespeare, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Sir John Soane, The Tempest, Tim O’Brien, University of Birmingham, William Shakespeare
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Escapes
My next set of images returns to the problem of what sort of ‘work’ writing is and whether it is actually anti-social.
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Tagged Concord, E. F. Benson, Elmira, Henry David Thoreau, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Marie Corelli, Mark Twain, New York State, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Olney, Samuel Clemens, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Tom Sawyer, Walden, William Cowper, William Shakespeare
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Implements
There is something unsettling and indecorous about thinking about the chair as the ground of writing – something altogether too reminiscent, as Simon Goldhill has put it, of the writer’s buttocks. The paraphernalia of writing which connects hand and … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Bank Grasmere, Ben Jonson, Dorchester County Museum, Edmund Spenser, history of reading, James Joyce, James Joyce Centre Dublin, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Mary Arden, National Trust, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations, Simon Goldhill, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth
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Chairs
The case of Burns’ desk suggests that the desk, however authentic, is not always adequate as the imagined ground of writing. Sometimes the chair will take the imaginative weight instead. Here are four ‘writer’s chairs’ that test that hypothesis. … Continue reading
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Tagged A la recherche du temps Perdu, A.L. Kennedy, Anne Hathaway, Cowper-Newton Museum, history of reading, Johann von Goethe, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Marcel Proust, Musée Carnavalet, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Olney, Paris, Stratford-Upon-Avon, the Gartenhaus, The Task, The Way by Swann’s, Weimar, William Cowper, William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare’s Verona
Shakespeare’s Verona is a true curiosity for the literary tourist because it is so much the product of wishful thinking. It is extremely unlikely (despite some pleasant speculation) that Shakespeare ever went to Italy; there is certainly no evidence … Continue reading
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Tagged history of reading, Italy, Jacques Augustin Galiffe, Jane Waldie, John Murray, Juliet’s Tomb, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, Lord Byron, love of literature, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nicola Watson 'At Juliet's Tomb' in Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet and Civic Life: The Boundaries of Civic Space ed. Silvia Bigliozzi and Lisanna Calvi, Romeo and Juliet, Samuel Rogers, Verona, William Shakespeare
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Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday
So here I am again in Stratford-upon-Avon, togged up in my increasingly disreputable DPhil gown from Oxford (this year the blue facings seem not only to have faded to a definite mauve, but to have become weirdly blotchy), carrying a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alloway, David Garrick, Great Fire of London, John Milton, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson, Robert Burns, Shakespeare Jubilee, Stratford-Upon-Avon, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain, William Shakespeare
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