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Arnold Bennett’s Hotel Space and Modernity
DU Xing-jie
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2024.07.007
Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
Arnold Bennett is well-known for his regional novels that mainly represent domestic quotidian lives of his pottery town, especially the lower and middle class. However, his infatuation with the hotel space implicates his ambition to re-situate his characters within the parameters of hotel and create new types of characters, representing in new ways the subjectivity of characters and their relations with material space. Based on his hotel writing, this article intends to re-conceive the historical reasons of his obsession with hotel space and further probe the modernity deflected by his representation of domestic selves and modern public identities in hotel space.
Arnold Bennett, hotel writing, space, modernity
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, July 2024, Vol. 14, No. 7, 584-591
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