Mobility and the Hotel in Modern Literature

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Exploring the role of hotels in literature, this book examines how they reflect the evolving experiences of modernity through the works of notable authors like Anthony Trollope and H.G. Wells. It engages with critical discussions on space and mobility in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, positing that hotels reshape boundaries within modernist, middlebrow, and popular fiction. By employing interdisciplinary approaches, it offers a comprehensive cultural history of hotels in British literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the interwar period.