Traveling to Meet the Dead, 1750-1860
by
P. Westover
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
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.