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

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

Edited By Monika Elbert, Susanne Schmid Copyright 2018
308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory. Focusing on the social and imaginary space of the hotel in fiction, periodicals, diaries, and travel accounts, the essays shed new light on nineteenth-century notions of travel writing. Analyzing the liminal space of the... Read more

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



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Biography

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).

Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid’s Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing provides an exploration of the nineteenth-century hotel
culture that brings these anxieties to the fore. The essays in the volume offer historical and cultural approaches to the fiction, diaries, and travel accounts...Elbert and Schmid’s insightful introduction places the volume into context, giving the reader a rich history of hotels, those who traveled through them, and the ways in which these spaces have been written about in literature and contemporary hotel theory. - Reviewed by H. J. E. Champion, Edith Wharton Review
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