Jens Martin Gurr and Berit Michel, eds., Romantic Cityscapes: Selected Papers from the Essen Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism and Paul Westover, Necromanticism: Travelling to Meet the Dead, 1750-1860

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  • Rebecca Butler Bangor University

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Jens Martin Gurr, Berit Michel, British Romanticism, Urbanisation, Congresses, Cities and Towns in Literature, Flâneurs, Paul Westover, Death, Literary Tourism, Graveside Literature, Homes and Haunts, Travel

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Review by Rebecca Butler (Bangor University) of Jens Martin Gurr and Berit Michel, eds., Romantic Cityscapes: Selected Papers from the Essen Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013. Pp. 263. €28.50 (pb). ISBN 9783868214895 and Paul Westover, Necromanticism: Travelling to Meet the Dead, 1750-1860. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. 217. £53. ISBN 9780230304437.

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16-02-2015

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