Hôtel d'Angleterre at Calais (The) [ Institutions / Residences & Lodgings ]
… which ‘amount to a total impossibility’. 2 Among the characters with whom he engages in conversation in the private and public spaces of the hotel are the monk, later the lady in front of the remise door, and the landlord, Monsieur Dessein, … encounters. Dessein and his hotel appear in travel writings, journals, and fictional accounts, which reference the same public and private spaces (the hotel, Yorick's supposed room, the remise door, the convent), characters (the landlord, … Tadié, Sterne's Whimsical Theatres of Language: Orality, Gesture, Literacy (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003). Prior to Sterne's publication of A Sentimental Journey , the hotel was occasionally mentioned by travellers. In his Observations on the …
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