Mobility and the Hotel in Modern Literature: Passing Through

by Emma Short

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030221288
• ISBN13: 9783030221287
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"