Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature : Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing (Paperback)

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