The Hotel as Setting in Early Twentieth-Century German and Austrian Literature: Checking in to Tell a Story
(Part of the Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Series)
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As the bourgeois concept of "home" became problematic after important changes in German-speaking society during the 19th century, many fiction writers chose the literary setting of the hotel to explore the status of the individual and the notions of public and private. As social microcosms, hotels are fitting experimental settings for literary inquiries into the tension between the individual's quest for a place in the world and the technocratic rationalism...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1571133216
ISBN13:9781571133212
Release Date:August 2006
Publisher:Camden House (NY)
Length:232 Pages
Weight:0.99 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
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