Robbie Moore is Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania. He has published in Modernist Cultures and Henry James Review, and has chapters in forthcoming volumes from Cambridge University Press and Routledge.

Hotel Modernity makes a major contribution to the scholarly literature on hotels and on literary and cinematic modernity, as well as on the history of the notion of the subject and of “character.” It is extremely rewarding. Buy it now.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction 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 Elevator5. The Hotel Auteur / The Manager’s OfficeBibliographyIndex

Robbie Moore is Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania. He has published in Modernist Cultures and Henry James Review, and has chapters in forthcoming volumes from Cambridge University Press and Routledge.

Hotel Modernity makes a major contribution to the scholarly literature on hotels and on literary and cinematic modernity, as well as on the history of the notion of the subject and of “character.” It is extremely rewarding. Buy it now.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction 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 Elevator5. The Hotel Auteur / The Manager’s OfficeBibliographyIndex

Robbie Moore is Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania. He has published in Modernist Cultures and Henry James Review, and has chapters in forthcoming volumes from Cambridge University Press and Routledge.

Hotel Modernity makes a major contribution to the scholarly literature on hotels and on literary and cinematic modernity, as well as on the history of the notion of the subject and of “character.” It is extremely rewarding. Buy it now.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction 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 Elevator5. The Hotel Auteur / The Manager’s OfficeBibliographyIndex