Author: P. Westover

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-02-21

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0230369499

Necromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism's recourse to the dead in its reading, writing, and canon-making practices.