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.
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).
Chapter One. Introduction: Modern Mobilities in the Hotel.- Chapter Two. Along the Corridor: Charting the Hotel Narrative.- Chapter Three. Anticipation and Stagnation in the Lobby.- Chapter Four. ‘The Intolerable Impudence of the Public Gaze’: The Public Rooms of the Hotel.- Chapter Five. Space, Movement, and Inhabitation: Transgression in the Hotel Bedroom.- Chapter Six. ‘The Bowels of the Hotel’: The Laundry, Kitchen, and Back Areas.- Chapter Seven. Afterword.
Lissa Paul, Rosemary R. Johnston, Emma Short, Canada) Paul, Lissa (Brock University, Australia) Johnston, Rosemary R. (University of Technology, Sydney, UK) Short, Emma (Newcastle University