Screen LibraryAnglo-American travelers and the hotel experience in nineteenth-century literature : nation, hospitality, travel writing /
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: |
2019. ©2018 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;
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| Item Description: | First issued in paperback 2019. |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780367878467 0367878461 9781138675902 1138675903 |
| Index Number: | PR778 |
| CLC: |
I712.064 I561.064 |
| Call Number: | I561.064/A589 |
| Contents: | Introduction / Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid -- Nationalism and imperialism: the hotel as guidepost to national interests. The moral economy of the Irish hotel from the union to the famine / Melissa Fegan -- English inns and hotels in nineteenth-century fiction / Susanne Schmid -- American accommodation: transatlantic travel, boardinghouse settlers, and hotel culture / Tamara S. Wagner -- The mundane vs the supernatural: domesticity, danger, or mystery in hotels. Hawthorne and hotels in Great Britain / Frederick Newberry -- A tomb with a view: supernatural experiences in the late nineteenth century's Egyptian hotels / Eleanor Dobson -- Dark hostelries: gothic hotels and inns in the long nineteenth century / Laurence Davies -- From comfort to capitalist excess: the evolving hotel experience as status symbol. The Waldorf-Astoria and New York society: grand hotel as site of modernity / Annabella Fick -- Henry James and "the testimony of the hotel" to transatlantic encounters / Maureen E. Montgomery -- Gilded-age hotel culture and the construction of American leisure-class identity / Grace Tirapelle -- Assignations, trysts, and memorable encounters in hotels. The inns of romantic drama / Frederick Burwick -- George Eliot and George Henry Lewes: respectable adultery and anonymous celebrity / Kathleen McCormack -- Edith Wharton's American and French hotels: a permeable private/public space / Carole M. Shaffer-Koros -- Women's travels and the hotel as nexus between private and public realms. "A continual recurrence of bad inns": public domesticity and women's travel in the early nineteenth century / Pam Perkins -- "I was in a fidget to know where we could possibly sleep": antebellum hospitality on the margins of nation in Caroline Kirkland's A new home, who'll follow? and Eliza Farnham's Life in prairie land / Michelle Gaffner Wood -- Afterword / Kevin J. James. |