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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Moore, Robbie,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474456678; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993752; 9783110993738; 9783110780406
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474456678
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robbie Moore.

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.