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Titre(s) : Anglo-American travelers and the hotel experience in nineteenth-century literature [Texte imprimé] : nation, hospitality, travel writing / edited by Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid
Publication : New York, NY : Routledge, 2018
Description matérielle : vii, 297 pages : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 24
Lien à la collection : Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Elbert, Monika Maria (1956-....). Éditeur scientifique
Schmid, Susanne (1964-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Récits de voyages américains -- 19e siècle
Récits de voyages américains -- 19e siècle
Hôtels -- Dans la littérature
Hôtels -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Hôtels -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781138675902. - ISBN 1138675903
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45395655p
Notice n° :
FRBNF45395655
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Table des matières : 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.