Literary Landscapes

Nik's posting about Sherry Simon's new book intrigues me. "Literary landscapes" seems to be a genre. See, for example Storied Streets by Brian Demchinsky (Montréal, 2002) and Toronto: A Literary Guide by Greg Gatenby (1991), both of which are kind of fun. Do all cities produce such things — guides to both landscapes that appeared in literature and landscapes that the creators inhabit?

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[Valentine Cadieux]

The British seem to have a corner on this -- I can't tell you how many people have told me to read Literary landscapes of the British Isles: A Narrative Atlas, an idea I find compelling, if not the experience of the atlas itself (David Daiches and John Flower (1979, London: Paddington Press). It could be done, though. There's a situationist possibility here...