Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture (SMLC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Emma Short is a Teaching Fellow at Durham University, UK. She has published two edited collections: Children’s Literature and Culture of the First World War (2016), and The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction (Palgrave, 2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mobility and the Hotel in Modern Literature
Book Subtitle: Passing Through
Authors: Emma Short
Series Title: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22129-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22128-7Published: 16 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22131-7Published: 16 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22129-4Published: 30 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-4838
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 223
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature