Preserving the Renaissance: Literature and Public Memory In the Homes of Longfellow, Hawthorne, and Poe.

Delves into the effort to preserve the houses of authors who wrote during the so-called American Renaissance in the U.S. Impact of the transformation of the authorial houses on the reputations of authors; Role of authorial homes preservation in representing important subset of a larger category of tourist sites; Problems in the campaign of authorial home preservation.