Mobility and the Hotel in Modern Literature

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Exploring the hotel as a symbol of modernity, this book examines its role in the works of authors like Trollope, Collins, Bennett, Wells, and Bowen. It delves into critical discussions about space, movement, and mobility in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, arguing that hotels reshape the boundaries of modernist, middlebrow, and popular fiction. Through interdisciplinary analysis, it offers a cultural history of the hotel in British literature, tracing its evolving significance from the mid-nineteenth century to the interwar period.