In the Poets' Footsteps: Literature, Tourism, and Regional Promotion

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Aimed not only at literature enthusiasts, but also at those who love to travel along less beaten paths, In the Poets’ Footsteps: Literature, Tourism, and Promotion tells the story of literary tourism between the beginning of the 1800s and today. Giovanni Capecchi surveys the methods most used today, namely printed and online literary guides, that offer a wide panorama of writers' homes and evaluates literary festivals as events capable of giving cultural and economic opportunities to the territories that host them. Contents Preface 1. Literary Tourism 1 Literature and Geography 2 Poetic Maps 3 Writers and Territorial Marketing 4 The Origins of Literary Tourism 5 Authentic Locations, Invented Locations 6 Time, Absence, Memory 2. Literary Guides 1 Aci Trezza without Verga 2 Giampaolo Dossena and “Literary Locations” 3 Watching Europe, Watched from Europe 4 Literary Guides: Types and Classifications 5 The Writer as Guide 3. Writers’ Homes 1 “There is the Poet’s Home”: Ugo Ojetti in the Rooms of the Writers 2 House Museums, Houses without Museums, Museums without Houses 3 Writers’ Houses: Classifications and Types 4 From House to House 5 Narrate, Reinventing 6 The Story of One’s Own Home, the Story of Others’ Homes 7 A Room All to Herself 4. Literary Parks 1 The Two Nievo’s 2 “Against the Corruption of Landscapes” 3 The Season of Global Subsidy 4 The Park “System” 5. Literary Festivals 1 “A Festival is First and Foremost a Location” 2 Topic, Time, Space 3 Effetto Festival Illustrations Index