Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture: Passing Through

Short, Emma

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 twentieth-century literature concerning space, movement, and mobility, arguing that the hotel reconfigures boundaries of modernist, middlebrow, and popular fiction. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary theoretical and analytical perspectives, the book provides a critical and cultural history of the hotel in British literature, charting its changing nature and usage from the mid-nineteenth century up until the interwar period.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2019-08-16

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030221287

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-22129-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 223