| Description |
x, 426 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| ISBN |
9780300195583 hardback |
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0300195583 hardback |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-404) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Classical hospitality -- Biblical hospitality -- Beowulf and Gawain: monstrosity, reciprocity, seduction -- Staging hospitality: Shakespeare -- Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the spirit of place -- Rousseau to Stendhal: the eroticized hostess -- Fielding to James: domesticity, mating, power -- Proust's hostesses -- Joyce, Woolf, Camus -- Epilogue. |
| Library Class |
Gen Lit A395.H77
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| Subject |
Hospitality in literature.
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Betrayal in literature.
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European literature -- History and criticism.
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