Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing
This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory. Focusing on the social and imaginary space of the hotel in fiction, periodicals, diaries, and travel accounts, the essays shed new light on nineteenth-century notions of travel writing. Analyzing the liminal space of the hotel affords a new way of understanding the freedoms and restrictions felt by travelers from different social classes and nations. As an environment that forced travelers to reimagine themselves or their cultural backgrounds, the hotel could provide…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Schmid, Susanne (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-19804-8
- EAN: 9781317198048
- Produktnummer: 24022887
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 308 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'360 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 8 schwarz-weiße Fotos
Über den Autor
Monika Elbert is Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at Montclair State University, USA.Susanne Schmid has taught at various universities and authored several books, among them the Helene Richter Award-winning Shelley's German Afterlives 1814-2000 (2007) and British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (2013). She co-edited Drink in the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries (2014).
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