Monika Elbert is Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at Montclair State University, USA.Susanne Schmid has taught at various universities and authored several books, among them the Helene Richter Award-winning Shelley's German Afterlives 1814–2000 (2007) and British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (2013). She co-edited Drink in the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries (2014).

• CONTENTSList of FiguresIntroductionMonika M. Elbert and Susanne SchmidPART I: Nationalism and Imperialism: The Hotel as Guidepost to National Interests1 The Moral Economy of the Irish Hotel from the Union to the FamineMelissa Fegan2 English Inns and Hotels in Nineteenth-Century FictionSusanne Schmid3 American Accommodation: Transatlantic Travel, Boardinghouse Settlers, and Hotel CultureTamara S. WagnerPart II: The Mundane vs the Supernatural: Domesticity, Danger, or Mystery in Hotels4 Hawthorne and Hotels in Great BritainFrederick Newberry5 A Tomb with a View: Supernatural Experiences in the Late Nineteenth Century’s Egyptian HotelsEleanor Dobson6 Dark Hostelries: Gothic Hotels and Inns in the Long Nineteenth CenturyLaurence DaviesPART III: From Comfort to Capitalist Excess: The Evolving Hotel Experience as Status Symbol7 The Waldorf-Astoria and New York Society: Grand Hotel as Site of ModernityAnnabella Fick8 Henry James and "the testimony of the hotel" to Transatlantic EncountersMaureen E. Montgomery9 Gilded-Age Hotel Culture and the Construction of American Leisure-Class IdentityGrace TirapellePART IV: Assignations, Trysts, and Memorable Encounters in Hotels10 The Inns of Romantic DramaFrederick Burwick11 George Eliot and George Henry Lewes: Respectable Adultery and Anonymous CelebrityKathleen McCormack12 Edith Wharton’s American and French Hotels: A Permeable Private/Public SpaceCarole M. Shaffer-KorosPART V: Women’s Travels and the Hotel as Nexus between Private and Public Realms13 "A Continual Recurrence of Bad Inns": Public Domesticity and Women’s Travel in the Early Nineteenth CenturyPam Perkins14

Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid’s Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing provides an exploration of the nineteenth-century hotelculture that brings these anxieties to the fore. The essays in the volume offer historical and cultural approaches to the fiction, diaries, and travel accounts...Elbert and Schmid’s insightful introduction places the volume into context, giving the reader a rich history of hotels, those who traveled through them, and the ways in which these spaces have been written about in literature and contemporary hotel theory. - Reviewed by H. J. E. Champion, Edith Wharton Review

Monika Elbert is Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at Montclair State University, USA.Susanne Schmid has taught at various universities and authored several books, among them the Helene Richter Award-winning Shelley's German Afterlives 1814–2000 (2007) and British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (2013). She co-edited Drink in the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries (2014).

• CONTENTSList of FiguresIntroductionMonika M. Elbert and Susanne SchmidPART I: Nationalism and Imperialism: The Hotel as Guidepost to National Interests1 The Moral Economy of the Irish Hotel from the Union to the FamineMelissa Fegan2 English Inns and Hotels in Nineteenth-Century FictionSusanne Schmid3 American Accommodation: Transatlantic Travel, Boardinghouse Settlers, and Hotel CultureTamara S. WagnerPart II: The Mundane vs the Supernatural: Domesticity, Danger, or Mystery in Hotels4 Hawthorne and Hotels in Great BritainFrederick Newberry5 A Tomb with a View: Supernatural Experiences in the Late Nineteenth Century’s Egyptian HotelsEleanor Dobson6 Dark Hostelries: Gothic Hotels and Inns in the Long Nineteenth CenturyLaurence DaviesPART III: From Comfort to Capitalist Excess: The Evolving Hotel Experience as Status Symbol7 The Waldorf-Astoria and New York Society: Grand Hotel as Site of ModernityAnnabella Fick8 Henry James and "the testimony of the hotel" to Transatlantic EncountersMaureen E. Montgomery9 Gilded-Age Hotel Culture and the Construction of American Leisure-Class IdentityGrace TirapellePART IV: Assignations, Trysts, and Memorable Encounters in Hotels10 The Inns of Romantic DramaFrederick Burwick11 George Eliot and George Henry Lewes: Respectable Adultery and Anonymous CelebrityKathleen McCormack12 Edith Wharton’s American and French Hotels: A Permeable Private/Public SpaceCarole M. Shaffer-KorosPART V: Women’s Travels and the Hotel as Nexus between Private and Public Realms13 "A Continual Recurrence of Bad Inns": Public Domesticity and Women’s Travel in the Early Nineteenth CenturyPam Perkins14

Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid’s Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing provides an exploration of the nineteenth-century hotelculture that brings these anxieties to the fore. The essays in the volume offer historical and cultural approaches to the fiction, diaries, and travel accounts...Elbert and Schmid’s insightful introduction places the volume into context, giving the reader a rich history of hotels, those who traveled through them, and the ways in which these spaces have been written about in literature and contemporary hotel theory. - Reviewed by H. J. E. Champion, Edith Wharton Review

Monika Elbert is Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at Montclair State University, USA.Susanne Schmid has taught at various universities and authored several books, among them the Helene Richter Award-winning Shelley's German Afterlives 1814–2000 (2007) and British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (2013). She co-edited Drink in the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries (2014).

• CONTENTSList of FiguresIntroductionMonika M. Elbert and Susanne SchmidPART I: Nationalism and Imperialism: The Hotel as Guidepost to National Interests1 The Moral Economy of the Irish Hotel from the Union to the FamineMelissa Fegan2 English Inns and Hotels in Nineteenth-Century FictionSusanne Schmid3 American Accommodation: Transatlantic Travel, Boardinghouse Settlers, and Hotel CultureTamara S. WagnerPart II: The Mundane vs the Supernatural: Domesticity, Danger, or Mystery in Hotels4 Hawthorne and Hotels in Great BritainFrederick Newberry5 A Tomb with a View: Supernatural Experiences in the Late Nineteenth Century’s Egyptian HotelsEleanor Dobson6 Dark Hostelries: Gothic Hotels and Inns in the Long Nineteenth CenturyLaurence DaviesPART III: From Comfort to Capitalist Excess: The Evolving Hotel Experience as Status Symbol7 The Waldorf-Astoria and New York Society: Grand Hotel as Site of ModernityAnnabella Fick8 Henry James and "the testimony of the hotel" to Transatlantic EncountersMaureen E. Montgomery9 Gilded-Age Hotel Culture and the Construction of American Leisure-Class IdentityGrace TirapellePART IV: Assignations, Trysts, and Memorable Encounters in Hotels10 The Inns of Romantic DramaFrederick Burwick11 George Eliot and George Henry Lewes: Respectable Adultery and Anonymous CelebrityKathleen McCormack12 Edith Wharton’s American and French Hotels: A Permeable Private/Public SpaceCarole M. Shaffer-KorosPART V: Women’s Travels and the Hotel as Nexus between Private and Public Realms13 "A Continual Recurrence of Bad Inns": Public Domesticity and Women’s Travel in the Early Nineteenth CenturyPam Perkins14

Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid’s Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing provides an exploration of the nineteenth-century hotelculture that brings these anxieties to the fore. The essays in the volume offer historical and cultural approaches to the fiction, diaries, and travel accounts...Elbert and Schmid’s insightful introduction places the volume into context, giving the reader a rich history of hotels, those who traveled through them, and the ways in which these spaces have been written about in literature and contemporary hotel theory. - Reviewed by H. J. E. Champion, Edith Wharton Review