Table 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

Reviews

[...] Bettina Matthias's study offers an informative, well-researched, and useful resource that expands our understanding of how authors employed hotel spaces to encapsulate the exploding crises of modernity ....
*MODERN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE*

This entertaining and original monograph is part creative non-fiction and part engaging scholarship.... Matthias presents here an original and lively contribution to interdisciplinary German studies, one which should be part of any library's collection....
*MONATSHEFTE*

[A] fascinating and enlightening read.. With the goal of constructing a place of reflection not only on the hotel novel, but also about the idea of the hotel as a site of social-cultural discourse, it fills a gap in literary and cultural critical scholarship.
*GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW*