By Simon Goldhill
The Victorian period used to be the excessive aspect of literary tourism. Writers comparable to Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott turned celebrities, and readers trekked in all places for a glimpse of the areas the place their heroes wrote and notion, walked and talked. Even Shakespeare used to be roped in, as Victorian marketers remodeled quiet Stratford-upon-Avon right into a mix shrine and vacationer trap.
Stratford keeps to entice the travelers this present day, as do many different websites of literary pilgrimage all through Britain. And our smooth age can have no larger consultant to such locations than Simon Goldhill. In Freud's sofa, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë's Grave, Goldhill makes a pilgrimage to Sir Walter Scott's baronial mansion, Wordsworth's cottage within the Lake District, the Brontë parsonage, Shakespeare's birthplace, and Freud's place of work in Hampstead. touring, up to attainable, via tools on hand to Victorians—and gamely negotiating distractions starting from damaged bicycles to a flock of guffawing eastern schoolgirls—he attempts to figure what our forebears have been searching for at those websites, in addition to what they need to say to the fashionable brain. What does it subject that Emily Brontë’s hidden passions burned during this particular room? What does it suggest, particularly now that his reputation has light, that Scott self-consciously equipped an extravagant fort appropriate for Ivanhoe—and star-struck travelers visited it whereas he was once nonetheless dwelling there? Or that Freud's meticulous sport of his Vienna place of work is now a meticulously preserved museum of itself? Or that Shakespeare’s birthplace positive aspects scholar actors declaiming snippets of his performs . . . within the backyard of a home the place he in all likelihood by no means wrote a unmarried line?
Goldhill brings to those inquiries his trademark wry humor and a lifetime's engagement with literature. the result's a trip booklet like no different, a reminder that even at the present time, the writing lifestyles nonetheless has the ability to inspire.
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I strived, like a Royal Shakespearean actor, to say “nature” with its full, rounded Wordsworthian power. So, as I lay in bed, I remembered a particular morning in the Lake District in the north of England when I was seventeen years old. The previous day had been one of the most frightening hikes of the whole camping group’s life, caught at high altitude in complete white-out, when the conditions became so fierce that the snow, sky and ground seemed an unbroken, hostile whiteness. Loss of bearings, freezing temperatures, and desperate strain just to make out a shape from the blankness—it was terrifying and exhausting and very dangerous.
This is a gothic tower, elaborately pinnacled and stained-glass windowed, in the dirtiest red-gray sandstone, built on his death by public demand to proclaim Scott’s importance. It is just over two hundred feet tall, and you can climb its spiral staircases, squeezing past anyone coming down, to a series of small viewing terraces, which give a stupendous view of the wondrous architecture of Edinburgh: those beetling Georgian tenements, huge domestic fortresses like cliff faces, larger than the castle itself, and the hills and the Firth of Forth beyond.
Or is it just the projection of an image—acknowledging and manipulating your readers’ hope of finding the real man? What sort of display did Scott think Abbotsford made? In his writing, he is so guarded and canny about self-revelation, always hiding behind a grin and a twist of disingenuous self-mockery. When he invited Washington Irving in to see his daughter sing Scottish ballads by the fire, how knowing was his picture of “the Scott family at home”? Was this the People or Hello magazine of its time?