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Hotel London : How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Black, Barbara
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus [Ohio] : Ohio State University Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.