"This illustrated study offers the first analytical history of the rise and development of literary tourism in nineteenth-century Britain, associated with authors from Shakespeare, Gray, Keats and Burns to Scott, the Bronte sisters and Thomas Hardy. Arguing for the twin importance of the rise of authorial biography and realist fiction in constructing tourist sentiment, practice and sites, this book also offers a survey of the unjustly neglected literary genres associated with such tourism - guidebooks, travel memoirs, essays on the 'homes and haunts' of authors and full-length studies of 'literary geographies'. Indispensable for students of the literature, the travel literature, and the tourism of the nineteenth-century."--BOOK JACKET