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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
New Guide to the Royal Leamington Spa, the Neighbouring Towns, and Surrounding Country
Author: Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Temples of Luxury
Author: Susanne SchmidPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000927261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This volume examines hotels, inns, restaurants, and travelling on luxurious trains and ships. The volume also explores social rituals, consumer culture, and issues of class and gender as well as the institutions of travelling for health, education, or any other purpose.
Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Author: Monika ElbertPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317198034
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory. Focusing on the social and imaginary space of the hotel in fiction, periodicals, diaries, and travel accounts, the essays shed new light on nineteenth-century notions of travel writing. Analyzing the liminal space of the hotel affords a new way of understanding the freedoms and restrictions felt by travelers from different social classes and nations. As an environment that forced travelers to reimagine themselves or their cultural backgrounds, the hotel could provide exhilarating moments of self-discovery or dangerous feelings of alienation. It could prove liberating to the tourist seeking an escape from prescribed gender roles or social class constructs. The book addresses changing notions of nationality, social class, and gender in a variety of expansive or oppressive hotel milieu: in the private space of the hotel room and in the public spaces (foyers, parlors, dining areas). Sections address topics including nationalism and imperialism; the mundane vs. the supernatural; comfort and capitalist excess; assignations, trysts, and memorable encounters in hotels; and women’s travels. The book also offers a brief history of inns and hotels of the time period, emphasizing how hotels play a large role in literary texts, where they frequently reflect order and disorder in a personal and/or national context. This collection will appeal to scholars in literature, travel writing, history, cultural studies, and transnational studies, and to those with interest in travel and tourism, hospitality, and domesticity.
The Book of British Topography
Author: John Parker AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Isles
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Free Library: Additions from 1864 to 1879. 1 v. in 2. 1879
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library, Reference Department. Prepared by A. Crestadoro. (Vol. II. Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879.) [With the "Index of Names and Subjects".]
Author: Public Free Libraries (Manchester)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
List of Works Relating to British Genealogy and Local History
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Catalogue of the Guildhall Library of the City of London
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
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