Titlebook: Romantic Englishness; Local, National and David Higgins Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014 Cole

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,William Hazlitt’s Englishness,wentieth chapter of his . (1826), which digresses from travelogue to consider the ‘Character of the English’, begins with the claim that ‘there are two things that an Englishman understands, hard words and hard blows’. Hazlitt goes on to argue that because the English are naturally sluggish and obtu

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Charles Lamb and the Exotic,en more complicated. The intense localism of his writings can only fully be understood in relation to Britain’s imperial activities, in which, as an employee of the East India Company, he was involved for most of his adult life. The following passage, from an 1815 letter to Robert Southey, encapsula

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,‘The Universal Nation’: England and Empire in Thomas De Quincey’s ‘The English Mail-Coach’,ish self. Unlike Lamb, however, Thomas De Quincey has been subject to considerable critical attention in this respect, for no other nineteenth-century author addressed the problem with greater intensity or urgency. As critics have shown, his xenophobic imperialism was connected to profound anxieties

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