TY  - BOOK
AU  - Black,Barbara J.
TI  - Hotel London: how Victorian commercial hospitality shaped a nation and its stories 
SN  - 0814214177
AV  - PR461 .B53 2019
U1  - 820.9/008 23
KW  - English literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Hotels
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - History
KW  - London (England)
KW  - In literature
N1  - 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
ER  -