A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses

by Anne Trubek

Book Overview

There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of a dead author? We may go in search of the point of inspiration, eager to stand on the very spot where our favorite literary characters first came to life--and find ourselves instead in the house where the author...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812242920
• ISBN13: 9780812242928
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"