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Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature - Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing (Hardcover)
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Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature - Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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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
exhilarating moments of self-discovery or dangerous feelings of
alienation. It could prove liberating to the tourist seeking an
escape from prescribed gender roles or social class constructs. The
book addresses changing notions of nationality, social class, and
gender in a variety of expansive or oppressive hotel milieu: in the
private space of the hotel room and in the public spaces (foyers,
parlors, dining areas). Sections address topics including
nationalism and imperialism; the mundane vs. the supernatural;
comfort and capitalist excess; assignations, trysts, and memorable
encounters in hotels; and women's travels. The book also offers a
brief history of inns and hotels of the time period, emphasizing
how hotels play a large role in literary texts, where they
frequently reflect order and disorder in a personal and/or national
context. This collection will appeal to scholars in literature,
travel writing, history, cultural studies, and transnational
studies, and to those with interest in travel and tourism,
hospitality, and domesticity.
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