Call that reading? Creative approaches to literary studies and literary heritage

This article uses case studies across the related disciplines of English, Creative Writing and Heritage, and aims to provide a toolkit for breaking down some of the barriers between them. It asks what happens when we engage with the literary text through immersion in historic landscapes, rewrite Victorian prose to help us engage with our own sensory responses, and increase our sensitivity to material objects beyond the text itself. Ultimately I want to argue that obstacles notwithstanding, the perpetual boundary crossing between English, Creative Writing and Heritage can provide new insights and challenge us to work in more innovative ways. The article is structured in three parts: Museums; Literary Pilgrimage for Victorianists; Creative Reading and Writing.