Format:
vii, 297 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
1138675903
,
9781138675902
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in nineteenth century literature 24
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781315560366
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Reiseliteratur
;
Hotel
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Schmid, Susanne 1964-
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