Necromanticism: traveling to meet the dead, 1750-1860

Introduction: traveling to meet the dead

On ideal presence

The origins of literary tourism

William Godwin, necro-tourism, and the empirical afterlife of the dead

Imaginary pilgrimages: Felicia Hemans, dead poets, and romantic historiography

Interlude: necromanticism and romantic authorship

The transatlantic invention of "English" literary heritage

Illustration, historicism, and travel: the legacy of Sir Walter Scott.