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January 18, 2013
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)
Posted by JD Hull at January 18, 2013 11:12 PM