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Hotel Modernity : Corporate Space in Literature and Film / Robbie Moore.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMCPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474456654
  • 9781474456678
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.93355 23
LOC classification:
  • PN56.H68 M66 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 LOUNGING BODIES: THE LOBBY AND PIAZZA -- 2 STAIN RESISTANCE: THE PARLOUR AND READING-ROOM -- 3 ‘RITZ’: THE ROOF GARDEN -- 4 HOTEL ANGST: THE CORRIDOR AND ELEVATOR -- 5 THE HOTEL AUTEUR: THE MANAGER’S OFFICE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: A richly historicised account of the modern corporation and its spatial manifestations in Britain and AmericaCentres the hotel and corporate space as key sites of modern experience and cultureExamines architectural and financial records, hotel trade journals, travel journalism, advertisements, and cinematic and literary representations to offer a thorough historical account of the hotel from 1870 to 1939Makes suggestive and original connections between material culture and literary formHotel Modernity explores the impact of corporate space on the construction and texture of modern fiction and film. It centres the hotel and corporate space as key sites of modern experience and culture. Examining architectural and financial records, hotel trade journals, travel journalism, advertisements and cinematic and literary representations, it charts the rise of hotel culture from 1870 to 1939. From Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen and Charlie Chaplin, from the ecstatic Waldorf to the ephemeral Ritz, from upstate New York to the Italian Riviera, the book considers the effects of hotel space on bodies, selves and communities.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 LOUNGING BODIES: THE LOBBY AND PIAZZA -- 2 STAIN RESISTANCE: THE PARLOUR AND READING-ROOM -- 3 ‘RITZ’: THE ROOF GARDEN -- 4 HOTEL ANGST: THE CORRIDOR AND ELEVATOR -- 5 THE HOTEL AUTEUR: THE MANAGER’S OFFICE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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A richly historicised account of the modern corporation and its spatial manifestations in Britain and AmericaCentres the hotel and corporate space as key sites of modern experience and cultureExamines architectural and financial records, hotel trade journals, travel journalism, advertisements, and cinematic and literary representations to offer a thorough historical account of the hotel from 1870 to 1939Makes suggestive and original connections between material culture and literary formHotel Modernity explores the impact of corporate space on the construction and texture of modern fiction and film. It centres the hotel and corporate space as key sites of modern experience and culture. Examining architectural and financial records, hotel trade journals, travel journalism, advertisements and cinematic and literary representations, it charts the rise of hotel culture from 1870 to 1939. From Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen and Charlie Chaplin, from the ecstatic Waldorf to the ephemeral Ritz, from upstate New York to the Italian Riviera, the book considers the effects of hotel space on bodies, selves and communities.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)