Hotel London : how Victorian commercial hospitality shaped a nation and its stories / Barbara Black.
Description: x, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 0814214177; 9780814214176Subject(s): English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Hotels -- England -- London -- 19th century -- History | London (England) -- In literatureDDC classification: 820.9/008 LOC classification: PR461 | .B53 2019
Contents:
Introduction: Hotel Circe -- Chapter 1. Hotel millennium: reading conspicuous leisure and sociability in modern London -- Chapter 2. Hotel individualism: telling the stories of London's chapels of ease, the biographies of five buildings -- Chapter. 3. The hotel habit: home and away, narratives of mobility -- Chapter 4. Hotel living: together/alone, a phenomenology of lived experience at the Langham and the Savoy -- Chapter 5. Hotel noir: "guests in the depths of hell," dark hospitality, and terror at the terminus -- Conclusion: Hotel dreams.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Hotel Circe -- Chapter 1. Hotel millennium: reading conspicuous leisure and sociability in modern London -- Chapter 2. Hotel individualism: telling the stories of London's chapels of ease, the biographies of five buildings -- Chapter. 3. The hotel habit: home and away, narratives of mobility -- Chapter 4. Hotel living: together/alone, a phenomenology of lived experience at the Langham and the Savoy -- Chapter 5. Hotel noir: "guests in the depths of hell," dark hospitality, and terror at the terminus -- Conclusion: Hotel dreams.