Hotel modernisms. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Anna Despotopoulou, Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Efterpi Mitsi.
• Editors: Despotopoulou, Anna; Kolocotroni, Vassiliki; Mētsē, Euterpē
• Contents: Introduction (Anna Despotopoulou, Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Efterpi Mitsi) 1. Hotel Trouble (Vassiliki Kolocotroni) HOSPITALITIES, COMMUNITIES 2. "Blank, blond horror": The Hotel as Medical Facility (Robbie Moore) 3. Hotel Performance and its Remains: Jean Cocteau and Mary Butts at the Welcome (Joel Hawkes) 4. Performing Belonging in Early Twentieth-Century Literary Hotels and the Case of Rich Americans (Bettina Matthias) 5. "No longer a hotel": Colonial Decadence in Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet (Athanasios Dimakis) ROOMS, VIEWS 6. Landslide at the Pension Bertolini: Anti-tourism versus Groundless Transculturalism in E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View (Shawna Ross) 7. H.D.’s Hotel Visions (Polly Hember) 8. Carnivorous Flowers and Poisoned Webs: Surrealist Experimentation in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and Anaïs Nin’s House of Incest (Josie Cray) 9. "Found his anxiety frothing": Denton Welch’s In Youth Is Pleasure and the Hotel as Camp Allegory (Allan Pero) LABOUR, LOVE 10. "The hotel story he made up": Hotel Life, Death, and Work in James Joyce’s Ulysses (Emma Short) 11. Life and Work in Interwar "Cathedrals of Modernity" (Ulrike Zitzlsperger) 12. White Women and Cheap Hotels (Tyler T. Schmidt) THEORY, DESIGN 13. Rota Moderna : Vortex Force in Viennese Hotel Lobbies (Rajesh Heynickx) 14. Grand Hotel Theory (John Hoffmann) 15. Prototype Hotels for the Jet Age (Bruce Peter)
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (250 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 809.9332; Hotels in literature; Modernism (Literature)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000834307; 9781000834284
• Related ISBNs: 9781032081274
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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