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Author:

Black, Barbara J., 1962- author.

Title:

Hotel London : how Victorian commercial hospitality shaped a nation and its stories / Barbara Black.

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

x, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

1800-1899
History.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
London (England)--In literature.
Hotels--London--London--19th century--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780814214176
0814214177

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1096294170

LCCN:

2019287093

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)