N. Watson – författare

This original, witty, 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, Burns and Scott, the Brontë sisters, and Thomas Hardy. Invaluable for the student of travel and literature of the nineteenth century.

This book offers both an introduction to the vibrant field of literary tourism studies and a selection of cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research. Indispensable for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture, it provides fascinating insights into the reception of, amongst others, Shakespeare, Dickens, Byron and Wordsworth.

There has been a notable upsurge of interest in the body. The essays in this volume consider a range of bodies as active in the social and economic processes of policy making, institutions and employment. They consider the body as a site of agency, resistance and compromise, and reflect upon the reluctance of sociology to engage with the body and notions of embodiment.

There has been a notable upsurge of interest in the body, both in terms of empirical and theoretical study and debate. Authors consider the body as a site of agency, resistance and compromise and reflect upon the reluctance of sociology to engage with the body and notions of embodiment.