Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing
Herausgeber: Elbert, Monika; Schmid, Susanne
Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing
Herausgeber: Elbert, Monika; Schmid, Susanne
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This book examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the 19th century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory.
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This book examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the 19th century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- Seitenzahl: 298
- Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 413g
- ISBN-13: 9780367878467
- ISBN-10: 0367878461
- Artikelnr.: 58482492
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- Seitenzahl: 298
- Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 413g
- ISBN-13: 9780367878467
- ISBN-10: 0367878461
- Artikelnr.: 58482492
Monika Elbert is Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at Montclair State University, USA. Susanne Schmid has taught at various universities and authored several books, among them the Helene Richter Award-winning Shelley's German Afterlives 1814-2000 (2007) and British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (2013). She co-edited Drink in the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries (2014).
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
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
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
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