A review by emtobiasz
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave by Simon Goldhill

3.0

This book was pretty good. I was impressed with the analysis of both the writers and their lives, as well as the idea of literary tourism in the Victorian era and now. I still think the book could have gone farther into these ideas, especially Victorian ideas about the treatment of writers. Also, I was surprised by the omission of Jane Austen-- who, I know, was neither Victorian nor much admired in the Victorian era, but she is the author who probably receives the most literary tourists today. And doesn't Dickens have a theme park now in Britain? I would have been interested to read Goldhill's interpretation of that. So, yes, I enjoyed the book and wouldn't have minded it being even longer (although if he called his wife "the family lawyer" or his traveling companions "four Jews on a train" one more time I might have thrown the book out the window).