Interlude: Necromanticism and Romantic Authorship

This intermezzo adds to scholarship on the theory and practice of Romantic authorship, pointing out effects of necromantic tourism on popular conceptions of writers. A distinctly Romantic “death of the author” emerged from touristic reader-author interactions. Sometimes comical, sometimes poignant, literary tourists’ commerce with writers taught authors that their death was a central fact of their celebrity. Necromantic tourism thus appealed simultaneously to two opposing models: on the one hand, it celebrated authors’ singularity, but on the other it insisted on authors’ fundamental commonalities with each other. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.