Simon Goldhill
Simon Goldhill is professor of Greek literature and culture and fellow and director of studies in classics at King's College, Cambridge, as well as director of the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group. He is the author of Love, Sex, and Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives.
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave
The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the... (more)