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Author:

Heffernan, James A. W.

Title:

Hospitality and treachery in western literature : / James A. W. Heffernan.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 426 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Hospitality in literature.
Betrayal in literature.
European literature--History and criticism.
Betrayal in literature.
European literature.
Hospitality in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-404) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Classical hospitality -- Biblical hospitality -- Beowulf and Gawain: monstrosity, reciprocity, seduction -- Staging hospitality: Shakespeare -- Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the spirit of place -- Rousseau to Stendhal: the eroticized hostess -- Fielding to James: domesticity, mating, power -- Proust's hostesses -- Joyce, Woolf, Camus -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

0300195583 (hbk.)
9780300195583 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)858914240

LCCN:

2013030741

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)