Introduction / Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid
Nationalism and imperialism: the hotel as guidepost to national interests. The moral economy of the Irish hotel from the union to the famine / Melissa Fegan
English inns and hotels in nineteenth-century fiction / Susanne Schmid
American accommodation: transatlantic travel, boardinghouse settlers, and hotel culture / Tamara S. Wagner
The mundane vs the supernatural: domesticity, danger, or mystery in hotels. Hawthorne and hotels in Great Britain / Frederick Newberry
A tomb with a view: supernatural experiences in the late nineteenth century's Egyptian hotels / Eleanor Dobson
Dark hostelries: gothic hotels and inns in the long nineteenth century / Laurence Davies
From comfort to capitalist excess: the evolving hotel experience as status symbol. The Waldorf-Astoria and New York society: grand hotel as site of modernity / Annabella Fick
Henry James and "the testimony of the hotel" to transatlantic encounters / Maureen E. Montgomery
Gilded-age hotel culture and the construction of American leisure-class identity / Grace Tirapelle
Assignations, trysts, and memorable encounters in hotels. The inns of romantic drama / Frederick Burwick
George Eliot and George Henry Lewes: respectable adultery and anonymous celebrity / Kathleen McCormack
Edith Wharton's American and French hotels: a permeable private/public space / Carole M. Shaffer-Koros
Women's travels and the hotel as nexus between private and public realms. "A continual recurrence of bad inns": public domesticity and women's travel in the early nineteenth century / Pam Perkins
"I was in a fidget to know where we could possibly sleep": antebellum hospitality on the margins of nation in Caroline Kirkland's A new home, who'll follow? and Eliza Farnham's Life in prairie land / Michelle Gaffner Wood
Afterword / Kevin J. James.