Mobility and the Hotel in Modern Literature Passing Through /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Short, Emma (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.