Research Catalog

Title

Anglo-American travelers and the hotel experience in nineteenth-century literature : nation, hospitality, travel writing / edited by Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid.

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Elbert, Monika M. (Monika Maria), 1956-
• Schmid, Susanne, 1964-

Description

vii, 297 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 24

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 24.

Subjects

• Hotels
• Travelers' writings, British
• Travelers' writings, American
• American prose literature
• English prose literature
• Travelers' writings, British > 19th century > History and criticism
• Hotels > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• History
• Hotels > United States > History > 19th century
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Englisch
• Travelers' writings, American > 19th century > History and criticism
• 1800-1899
• Reiseliteratur
• Hotel > Motiv
• Hotels in literature
• United States
• American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• Great Britain
• English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

Call Number

JFE 17-11235

ISBN

• 9781138675902
• 1138675903

LCCN

• 2017017897
• 40027526090

OCLC

991535964

Title

Anglo-American travelers and the hotel experience in nineteenth-century literature : nation, hospitality, travel writing / edited by Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 24

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 24.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Elbert, Monika M. (Monika Maria), 1956- editor.

Schmid, Susanne, 1964- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40027526090

Research Call Number

JFE 17-11235