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Hotel modernisms / edited by Anna Despotopoulou, Vassiliki Kolocotroni, and Efterpi Mitsi.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Among the Victorians and modernists
- Among the Victorians and Modernists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hotels in literature.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Anna Despotopoulou is Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Vassiliki Kolocotroni is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Efterpi Mitsi is Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 3rd, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hotel modernisms
- ISBN:
- 9781003213079
- 1003213073
- 9781000834307
- 1000834301
- 100083428X
- 9781000834284
- Publisher Number:
- 40031687782
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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