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

by Bettina Matthias

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"