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June 07, 2012
Englishness: The Novel.
The English novel, the single most potent agent of English culture on the Continent, was par excellence, about characters and manners.
--Paul Langford, Englishness Identified: Manners and Character, 1650-1850 (Oxford University Press, 2000)
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Posted by JD Hull at June 7, 2012 12:00 AM
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and if the English novel is par excellence then the English (Welsh) festival of novels must be too..
http://www.hayfestival.com/wales/index.aspx?skinid=2¤cysetting=GBP&localesetting=en-GB&resetfilters=true
Dan - why aren't you there?
Posted by: Ruthie at June 7, 2012 12:47 PM
Because I am here?
Posted by: Dan Hull at June 7, 2012 11:52 PM