From page to place: American literary tourism and the afterlives of authors

Introduction / Jennifer Harris and Hilary Iris Lowe

The eighteenth-century author no one knows and other problems: promoting Jupiter Hammon on Long Island / Jennifer Harris

"Step forth and again take up its magic pen": the author's house as informal memorial / Erin Hazard

Keeping (the spirit of) Thoreau alive in Concord: reflections on diversity and innovation in American literary tourism / Klara-Stephanie Szlezak

The wide, wide world beyond a tiny, deserted island: at home with Susan and Anna Warner / Rebecca Rego Barry

"Afoot with my vision": Whitmania and tourism in the digital age / Mara Scanlon

Commemorating writers' workplaces: the case of Mark Twain's study and quarry farm / Hilary Iris Lowe

"Shut not your doors to me, proud libraries!": the repatriation of Edith Wharton's library / Caroline Hellman

Making a little house: literary tourism at Rocky Ridge Farm / Michelle McClellan

Author homes in coffee table books: half-reading, literary decor, and the good life / Ben De Bruyn

The allure of American authors' homes: surveying nineteenth- and twentieth- century literary guides / Susann Bishop

Appendix: a bibliography of guides for literary tourists.