Required reading: the role of the literary scholar in mapping difference and prompting interest in distant destinations

Sue Norton

Current Issues in Tourism, 2021, vol. 24, issue 17, 2381-2385

Abstract: Taking account of research into the relationship between the reading of narrative fiction and niche tourism, this article speculates on the role of the university lecturer of literature in shaping the touristic desires of students. It is especially interested in the influence of European based lecturers of American fiction as they stimulate the geographic imaginations of their learners. Since cultural capital accrues through the reading of serious works of literature, the influence of lecturers is likely to have some bearing on the eventual travel destinations of university graduates prompted to seek out the material locations that they have read about in books.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2020.1831447

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