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Aug 01, 2025
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TMGT 408 Literacy TourismCredit 3
This course explores the intersection of literature and tourism, especially the two basic kinds of literary tourism. The first genre is tourism concerning the authors themselves, their birthplace, home, places where they wrote, and gravesite, as well as places that inspired them. The second genre is tourism related to their storylines, especially “real-life” (vs. “imagined”) place settings and paths traveled by their characters. This course begins with seminal British and Irish historical and contemporary contributions to this genre, examining such topics as the impact of William Wordsworth’s Lake District and the concepts and effects of the European Grand Tour. It then moves on to key North American authors that have been the inspiration for tourism, such as Lucy Maud Montgomery (the author Anne of Green Gables), Henry David Thoreau (Walden Pond), Ernest Hemingway, and others. The course also explores the impact of travel writing and blogging on literary tourist choices, the authenticity of literary sites, and tourism-related to antiquarian bookshops and rare book libraries. Prerequisite(s): Senior level major elective or tourism track.
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