The British Isles In The Mind’s Eye: Literary Tourism And “Real” History

What are the relations among history, fiction, and tourism? Contributions are invited for a collection of essays that will map the boundaries of and intersections among these discourses of “place,” with an emphasis on literary tourism and the British Isles. Essays may be focused on the theoretical or on studies of individual historical sites or literary authors, and they may approach the subject from the perspectives of anthropology, cultural studies, literary history, or history. Potential subjects of interest include historicality, historicity, and historical fiction; the influence of popular fiction and film on British tourism or on the marketing of historical sites to the literary tourist; the (re-)creation of history in fiction and film; and the impact of tourism on historical curation.

Send 500-word abstracts and one-page CVs as Word documents to the editor, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher (lmfletch@cedarcrest.edu), by 1 September, 2017. Accepted abstracts will be included in the proposal to the press, Lexington Books, with completed manuscripts needed by 1 June 2018.