Mobility and the Hotel in Modern Literature
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Brings together mobilities studies, spatial studies, gender studies, and literary geography Contributes to theories of narrative and form in modernist literature Historicizes the hotel in British fiction
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Emma Short
Themen in »Mobility and the Hotel in Modern Literature«
guests spaces and hotels travel travel writing hotels genre fiction mobility studies geocriticism spatial studies hotel narrative nineteenth century British detective fiction modernist fiction train travel early twentieth century middlebrow British fiction
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“This engaging, original study takes a fresh approach to questions of subjectivity and space in modern writing by examining how British novelists responded to the rise of a new social institution: the hotel. Short’s book is itself a model of intellectual mobility as it weaves elegantly between literary, philosophical, and historical registers. Treating a wide range of authors from Bennett and Wells to Bowen and Woolf, Short reimagines how modern fiction explores questions of social class, status, nationality, and gender.” (Adam Parkes, Professor of English, University of Georgia, USA, and author of A Sense of Shock (2011))
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