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Produktbild: Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

31.08.2017

Abbildungen

Raster,schwarz-weiss

Herausgeber

Monika Elbert + weitere

Verlag

Taylor & Francis

Seitenzahl

308

Maße (L/B/H)

23,5/15,7/2,1 cm

Gewicht

599 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-138-67590-2

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

31.08.2017

Abbildungen

Raster,schwarz-weiss

Herausgeber

Verlag

Taylor & Francis

Seitenzahl

308

Maße (L/B/H)

23,5/15,7/2,1 cm

Gewicht

599 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-138-67590-2

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature

  • CONTENTS

    List of Figures

    Introduction

    Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid

    PART I: Nationalism and Imperialism: The Hotel as Guidepost to National Interests

    1 The Moral Economy of the Irish Hotel from the Union to the Famine

    Melissa Fegan

    2 English Inns and Hotels in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

    Susanne Schmid

    3 American Accommodation: Transatlantic Travel, Boardinghouse Settlers, and Hotel Culture

    Tamara S. Wagner

    Part II: The Mundane vs the Supernatural: Domesticity, Danger, or Mystery in Hotels

    4 Hawthorne and Hotels in Great Britain

    Frederick Newberry

    5 A Tomb with a View: Supernatural Experiences in the Late Nineteenth Century's Egyptian Hotels

    Eleanor Dobson

    6 Dark Hostelries: Gothic Hotels and Inns in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Laurence Davies

    PART III: From Comfort to Capitalist Excess: The Evolving Hotel Experience as Status Symbol

    7 The Waldorf-Astoria and New York Society: Grand Hotel as Site of Modernity

    Annabella Fick

    8 Henry James and "the testimony of the hotel" to Transatlantic Encounters

    Maureen E. Montgomery

    9 Gilded-Age Hotel Culture and the Construction of American Leisure-Class Identity

    Grace Tirapelle

    PART IV: Assignations, Trysts, and Memorable Encounters in Hotels

    10 The Inns of Romantic Drama

    Frederick Burwick

    11 George Eliot and George Henry Lewes: Respectable Adultery and Anonymous Celebrity

    Kathleen McCormack

    12 Edith Wharton's American and French Hotels: A Permeable Private/Public Space

    Carole M. Shaffer-Koros

    PART V: Women's Travels and the Hotel as Nexus between Private and Public Realms

    13 "A Continual Recurrence of Bad Inns": Public Domesticity and Women's Travel in the Early Nineteenth Century

    Pam Perkins

    14 "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

    15 Afterword

    Kevin J. James

    List of Contributors

    Index