Hotel modernisms /
This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first half of the twentieth century. As a trope for social and cultural mobility, transitory and precarious modes of livin...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2023].
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| Series: | Among the Victorians and modernists.
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Table of Contents:
- Hotel trouble / Vassiliki Kolocotroni
- "Blank, blond horror" : the hotel as medical facility / Robbie Moore
- Hotel performance and its remains : Jean Cocteau and Mary Butts at the welcome / Joel Hawkes
- Performing belonging in early twentieth-century literary hotels and the case of rich Americans / Bettina Matthias
- "No longer a hotel" : colonial decadence in Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet / Athanasios Dimakis
- Landslide at the Pension Bertolini : anti-tourism versus groundless transculturalism in E.M. Forster's A room with a view / Shawna Ross
- H.D.'S hotel visions / Polly Hember
- Carnivorous flowers and poisoned webs : surrealist experimentation in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and Anaïs Nin's House of incest / Josie Cray
- "Found his anxiety frothing" : Denton Welch's In youth is pleasure and the hotel as camp allegory / Allan Pero
- "[T]he hotel story he made up" : hotel life, death, and work in James Joyce's Ulysses / Emma Short
- Life and work in interwar "cathedrals of modernity" / Ulrike Zitzlsperger
- White women and cheap hotels / Tyler T. Schmidt
- Rota Moderna : Vortex Force in Viennese Hotel lobbies / Rajesh Heynickx
- Grand hotel theory / John Hoffmann
- Prototype hotels for the jet age / Bruce Peter.