Hospitality and treachery in western literature : /
Heffernan, James A. W.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-404) and index.
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.
Hospitality in literature.
Betrayal in literature.
European literature