The Hotel as Setting in Early Twentieth-Century German and Austrian Literature - Checking in to Tell a Story

The employment of the hotel as a setting for literary works of the period and the cultural reasons behind it.

List of contents

Introduction
The History of European Commercial Hospitality
The Hotel and Hotel Culture in Modernism--Some Critical Thoughts
Players and Places: Stock Elements of Hotel Culture and Fiction
Women in Hotels
Men in Hotels
Menschen im Hotel
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Bettina Matthias

Product details

• Authors: Bettina Matthias
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.08.2006
• EAN: 9781571133212
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-321-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 449 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous