19%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave (Culture Trails: Adventures in Travel)
Simon Goldhill
€ 26.99
€ 21.79
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave (Culture Trails: Adventures in Travel)
Hardcover. Stratford continues to lure tourists today, as do many other sites of literary pilgrimage throughout Britain. In this title, the author makes a pilgrimage to Sir Walter Scott's baronial mansion, Wordsworth's cottage in the Lake District, the Bronte parsonage, Shakespeare's birthplace, and Freud's office in Hampstead. Series: Culture Trails: Adventures in Travel. Num Pages: 160 pages, 12 halftones, 1 amp. BIC Classification: 1DB; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 310.
The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked and talked. Even Shakespeare was roped in, as Victorian entrepreneurs transformed quiet Stratford-upon-Avon into a combination shrine and tourist trap. Stratford continues to lure tourists today, as do many other sites of literary pilgrimage throughout Britain. And our modern age could have no better guide to such places than Simon Goldhill. In "Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave", ... Read more
The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked and talked. Even Shakespeare was roped in, as Victorian entrepreneurs transformed quiet Stratford-upon-Avon into a combination shrine and tourist trap. Stratford continues to lure tourists today, as do many other sites of literary pilgrimage throughout Britain. And our modern age could have no better guide to such places than Simon Goldhill. In "Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave", ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Series
Culture Trails: Adventures in Travel
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226301310
SKU
V9780226301310
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Simon Goldhill
Simon Goldhill is professor of Greek literature and culture and fellow and director of studies in classics at King's College, Cambridge, as well as director of the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group. He is the author of Love, Sex, & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives.
Reviews for Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave (Culture Trails: Adventures in Travel)
"Love, Sex & Tragedy is great, and great fun, the kind of book you find yourself reading out to your other half as you go along-a sparkling, erudite, and amusing remedy for our collective historical amnesia, a book that persuasively argues that without an understanding of our classical roots we are stumbling in the dark, missing vital information about who ... Read more