Emma Short is a Teaching Fellow at Durham University, UK. She has published two edited collections: Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War (2016), and The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction (Palgrave, 2012).

1 Introduction: Modern Mobilities in the Hotel

2 Along the Corridor: Charting the Hotel Narrative

3 Anticipation and Stagnation in the Lobby

4 'The Intolerable Impudence of the Public Gaze': The Public Rooms of the Hotel

5 Space, Movement, and Inhabitation: Transgression in the Hotel Bedroom

6 'The Bowels of the Hotel': The Laundry, Kitchen, and Back Areas

7 Afterword