Book
Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories
| Title: | Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories |
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| Authors: | Black, Barbara J., 1962- |
| Publisher Information: | The Ohio State University Press |
| Publication Year: | 2019 |
| Collection: | Ohio State University (OSU): Knowledge Bank |
| Subject Terms: | Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, London (England) -- In literature |
| Time: | Hotels -- England -- London -- 19th century -- History, English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism |
| Description: | x, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; 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. ; Item embargoed for five years |
| Document Type: | book |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8142-1417-6 0-8142-1417-7 |
| Relation: | https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214176; http://hdl.handle.net/1811/88538 |
| DOI: | 10.26818/9780814214176 |
| Availability: | https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214176 http://hdl.handle.net/1811/88538 |
| Rights: | Copyright © 2019 by The Ohio State University. All rights reserved. |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.AC06CF23 |
| Database: | BASE |
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