Hôtel d'Angleterre at Calais (The) [ Institutions / Residences & Lodgings ]
… of A Sentimental Journey, with a narrator whose digressions imitate Sterne's. Much of the first volume parodies the conventions of the travelogue, focusing on the trip to Dover, where the narrator eventually considers giving up his journey, thus mocking the conventions of the genre. Having nevertheless finally made it to Calais, he meets Dessein and a Franciscan friar, who …
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