Mobility and the Hotel in Modern Literature Passing Through /

• Main Author: Short, Emma (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Literary Theory.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.

This book considers the complex ways in which the hotel functions to express the shifting experiences of modernity in the works of such authors as Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells and Elizabeth Bowen. The text contributes to the critical debates on nineteenth- and twentie...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter One. Introduction: Modern Mobilities in the Hotel
• Chapter Two. Along the Corridor: Charting the Hotel Narrative
• Chapter Three. Anticipation and Stagnation in the Lobby
• Chapter Four. 'The Intolerable Impudence of the Public Gaze': The Public Rooms of the Hotel
• Chapter Five. Space, Movement, and Inhabitation: Transgression in the Hotel Bedroom
• Chapter Six. 'The Bowels of the Hotel': The Laundry, Kitchen, and Back Areas
• Chapter Seven. Afterword.