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

CONTENTS List of Figures Introduction Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid PART I: Nationalism and Imperialism: The Hotel as Guidepost to National Interests 1 The Moral Economy of the Irish Hotel from the Union to the Famine Melissa Fegan 2 English Inns and Hotels in Nineteenth-Century Fiction Susanne Schmid 3 American Accommodation: Transatlantic Travel, Boardinghouse Settlers, and Hotel Culture Tamara S. Wagner Part II: The Mundane vs the Supernatural: Domesticity, Danger, or Mystery in Hotels 4 Hawthorne and Hotels in Great Britain Frederick Newberry 5 A Tomb with a View: Supernatural Experiences in the Late Nineteenth Century’s Egyptian Hotels Eleanor Dobson 6 Dark Hostelries: Gothic Hotels and Inns in the Long Nineteenth Century Laurence Davies PART III: From Comfort to Capitalist Excess: The Evolving Hotel Experience as Status Symbol 7 The Waldorf-Astoria and New York Society: Grand Hotel as Site of Modernity Annabella Fick 8 Henry James and "the testimony of the hotel" to Transatlantic Encounters Maureen E. Montgomery 9 Gilded-Age Hotel Culture and the Construction of American Leisure-Class Identity Grace Tirapelle PART IV: Assignations, Trysts, and Memorable Encounters in Hotels 10 The Inns of Romantic Drama Frederick Burwick 11 George Eliot and George Henry Lewes: Respectable Adultery and Anonymous Celebrity Kathleen McCormack 12 Edith Wharton’s American and French Hotels: A Permeable Private/Public Space Carole M. Shaffer-Koros PART V: Women’s Travels and the Hotel as Nexus between Private and Public Realms 13 "A Continual Recurrence of Bad Inns": Public Domesticity and Women’s Travel in the Early Nineteenth Century Pam Perkins 14 "I was in a fidget to know where we could possibly sleep": Antebellum Hospitality on the Margins of Nation in Caroline Kirkland’s A New Home, Who’ll Follow? and Eliza Farnham’s Life in Prairie Land Michelle Gaffner Wood 15 Afterword Kevin J. James List of Contributors Index