Literature and Tourism
Essays in the Reading and Writing of Tourism
Mike Robinson author Hans Christian Andersen author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cengage Learning EMEA
Published:12th Jan '04
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Literature � through both its texts and its authors � has often been an important inspiration for tourists. And tourism, in turn, has long inspired literature. Through analysis of literature from North America, the British Isles and Europe drawn from contrasting periods and across a range of genres and forms, Literature and Tourism provides a detailed and in-depth explanation of the changing inter-relationship between literature and tourism.
1. Reading between the lines: Literature and the creation of touristic spaces. 2. Between and Beyond the Pages: Literature-Tourism relationships. 3. ?Inside? and ?Outside? Writings on Spain: Their relationship to Spanish Tourism. 4. ?Frizzling in the Sun?: Robert Graves and the development of mass tourism in the Balearic Islands. 5. Nevil Shute and the landscape of England: An opportunity for literary tourism. 6. Tourism comes to Haworth. 7. Tourists and the Cultural Construction of Haworth?s Literary Landscape. 8. Cultural Gamekeepers in the LM Montgomery Tourist Industry. 9. The Two Mark twains as Tourists. 10. Matthew Arnold?s Guerilla in the Glade: The Politics and Poetics of Tourism. 11. Literature, Tourism and the Grand Tour. 12. La Serenissima: Dreams, Love and Death in Venice. 13. African Sublime: The Dark Continent Joins the Grand Tour.
ISBN: 9781844800742
Dimensions: 243mm x 170mm x 20mm
Weight: 545g
300 pages
Standard Edition