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The Literary Heritagescape: Translating Literary Settings into Heritage Sites
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Ashworth, Georgia Rose
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Sorensen, Marie Louise Stig
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This dissertation examines the particular nature of setting-based literary heritage sites. These
sites are in a unique position because of their connection to fiction. Three case studies are used to
represent a range of setting-based literary heritage sites: Ashdown Forest, The Sherlock Holmes
Museum, and Green Gables Heritage Place. The nature of these sites is examined through site
observation of tangible and interpreted elements at each site and discussed through three themes:
Immersion, Boundaries, and Authenticity. These themes draw from and re-examine current
understanding of the heritagescape, and bring forth the challenges of mixing fiction and reality
and the difficulties navigating traditional understandings of authenticity at these sites. This
research shows how these sites can be analysed as heritage and do not need to be excluded
because of their fictional connection. In fact, their unique position among heritage sites allows
for new dimensions of the heritagescape to be considered and offers new understandings of how
heritage is created and interpreted.
University of Cambridge
2019-10-26
Thesis
Masters
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
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I received a Travel Grant from Downing College to help fund the fieldwork for this dissertation.
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heritagescape
heritage sites
literary heritage
Immersion
Boundaries
Authenticity
heritage
Sherlock Holmes Museum
Ashdown Forest
Green Gables