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“Her mind was an hotel”: Edith Wharton’s “Xingu”

By Anna Despotopoulou Mrs. Leveret’s sense of being adrift was intensified by the appearance of Mrs. Ballinger’s drawing-room. To a careless eye its aspect was…

anna04/10/2021

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HOTEMS on the beach

They were young, educated, and both virgins on this, their wedding night, and they lived in a time when a conversation about sexual difficulties was…

anna30/07/2021

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Neapolitan Hotels in George Gissing’s The Emancipated

By Efterpi Mitsi George Gissing’s The Emancipated, published in 1890, uses the author’s own experience from his first and long-awaited journey to Italy. The novel…

anna10/07/2021

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O. Henry’s Manhattan Hotel: Mamie Siviter (Madame Heloise D’Arcy Beaumont) and James/Jimmy McManus (Harold Farrington) as “Transients in Arcadia”

by Athanasios Dimakis The situational irony of the New York Hotel Lotus in “Transients in Arcadia” (originally published on July 17, 1904, in the New…

anna01/07/2021

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Miriam’s “cheap room in a modest hotel” in Dorothy M. Richardson’s “Oberland” (1927)

by Chryssa Marinou When the door was at last blessedly closed upon the narrow room whose first statements miscarried, lost in the discovery that even…

anna14/06/2021

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“Gennaro! Gennaro!” E. M. Forster’s Hotel Erotica in Ravello

By Athanasios Dimakis In his exploration of Italian male sexuality in art, motion pictures, and music through the lens of the antithetical pairing of realism…

anna22/04/2021

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Hotel Hellenism (?): Three Scenes from Henry Miller’s “The Colossus of Maroussi”

By Athanasios Dimakis Henry Miller’s 1941 The Colossus of Maroussi, an impressionist travelogue that has become a classic in travel literature, features some scant hotel…

anna12/04/2021

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“Two Hotels” for a “Hotel Child”: William Plomer in Japan

By Athanasios Dimakis William Plomer, the South African/British poet, novelist, and editor, wrote some of his poetry under the pseudonym Robert Pagan. This is suggested…

anna04/04/2021

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Mark Twain’s Marseilles Hotel

By Chryssa Marinou Mark Twain, “America’s premier traveling spokesperson,” boarded the Quaker City in 1967 to enjoy “the Quaker City Pleasure Excursion, a highly publicized…

anna29/03/2021

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Mrs. Seacole’s British Hotels (1855)

By Anna Despotopoulou BRITISH HOTEL. Mrs. Mary Seacole (Late of Kingston, Jamaica), Respectfully announces to her former kind friends, and to the Officers of…

anna19/03/2021

“Her mind was an hotel”: Edith Wharton’s “Xingu”

HOTEMS on the beach

Neapolitan Hotels in George Gissing’s The Emancipated

O. Henry’s Manhattan Hotel: Mamie Siviter (Madame Heloise D’Arcy Beaumont) and James/Jimmy McManus (Harold Farrington) as “Transients in Arcadia”

Miriam’s “cheap room in a modest hotel” in Dorothy M. Richardson’s “Oberland” (1927)

“Gennaro! Gennaro!” E. M. Forster’s Hotel Erotica in Ravello

Hotel Hellenism (?): Three Scenes from Henry Miller’s “The Colossus of Maroussi”

“Two Hotels” for a “Hotel Child”: William Plomer in Japan

Mark Twain’s Marseilles Hotel

Mrs. Seacole’s British Hotels (1855)

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