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Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave
Author: Simon Goldhill
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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 the 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 Freuds Couch, Scotts Buttocks, Brontes Grave, Goldhill makes a pilgrimage to Sir Walter Scotts baronial mansion, Wordsworths cottage in the Lake District, the Bront e parsonage, Shakespeares birthplace, and Freuds office in Hampstead. Traveling, as much as possible, by methods available to Victoriansand gamely negotiating distractions ranging from broken bicycles to a flock of giggling Japanese schoolgirlshe tries to discern what our forebears were looking for at these sites, as well as what they have to say to the modern mind. What does it matter that Emily Brontes hidden passions burned in this specific room? What does it mean, especially now that his fame has faded, that Scott self-consciously built an extravagant castle suitable for Ivanhoeand star-struck tourists visited it while he was still living there? Or that Freuds meticulous recreation of his Vienna office is now a meticulously preserved museum of itself? Or that Shakespeares birthplace features student actors declaiming snippets of his plays . . . in the garden of a house where he almost certainly never wrote a single line? Goldhill brings to these inquiries his trademark wry humor and a lifetimes engagement with literature. The result is a travel book like no other, a reminder that even today, the writing life still has the power to inspire.**
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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 the 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 Freuds Couch, Scotts Buttocks, Brontes Grave, Goldhill makes a pilgrimage to Sir Walter Scotts baronial mansion, Wordsworths cottage in the Lake District, the Bront e parsonage, Shakespeares birthplace, and Freuds office in Hampstead. Traveling, as much as possible, by methods available to Victoriansand gamely negotiating distractions ranging from broken bicycles to a flock of giggling Japanese schoolgirlshe tries to discern what our forebears were looking for at these sites, as well as what they have to say to the modern mind. What does it matter that Emily Brontes hidden passions burned in this specific room? What does it mean, especially now that his fame has faded, that Scott self-consciously built an extravagant castle suitable for Ivanhoeand star-struck tourists visited it while he was still living there? Or that Freuds meticulous recreation of his Vienna office is now a meticulously preserved museum of itself? Or that Shakespeares birthplace features student actors declaiming snippets of his plays . . . in the garden of a house where he almost certainly never wrote a single line? Goldhill brings to these inquiries his trademark wry humor and a lifetimes engagement with literature. The result is a travel book like no other, a reminder that even today, the writing life still has the power to inspire.**
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