… the eighteenth-century inn remains a British icon, the nineteenth- and twentieth-century hotel has often been seen as an American institution. 12 6 . See Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten, The History of Signboards, from the Earliest Times … Schmid. ‘English Inns and Hotels in Nineteenth-Century Fiction‘, in Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid (eds), Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing (New … in New York, London und Berlin um 1900 (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2015), p. 34. 12 . A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, Hotel: An American History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). On early hotels, see p. 27-29. A large number of pubs and …