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Dear Miss Morland, consider the dreadful nature of the suspicions you have entertained. What have you been judging from? Remember the country and the age in which we live. Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. Consult your understanding, your own sense of the probable, your own observation of what is passing around you — Does our education prepare us for atrocities? Do our laws connive at them? Could they be perpetuated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing; where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?1
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Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1818), Vol. II, Ch. IX.
For the most recent account of the ‘Grand Tour’ see Andrew Wilton and Ilaria Bignamini, eds, Grand Tour: The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1996).
Percy Adams, Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel (Lexington: Kentucky University Press, 1983).
S. Korte, Barbara, Der englische Reisebericht: Von der Pilgerfahrt bis zur Postmoderne (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1996).
Haseler, Stephen, The English Tribe: Identity, Nation and Europe (London: Macmillan, 1996), p. 22.
For an analysis of ‘Of National Characters’ see Franz K. Stanzel,’ schemata und Klischees der Völkerbeschreibung in David Hume’s Essay “Of National Characters’”, Studien zur englischen und amerikanischen Sprache und Literatur. Festschrift für Helmut Papajewski, eds Paul G. Buchloh, Inge Leimberg, and Herbert Rauter (Neumünster: Wacholtz, 1974), pp. 363–83.
Edmund Burke, ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings of Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event’, Works, Vol. II (London: Bohn, 1855), p. 516.
Homi K. Bhabha, ed., Nation and Narration (London and New York: Routledge, 1990).
Ministry of Information, Programme for Film Propaganda; from Documentary Newsletter (1940); repr. in: Judy Giles, and Tim Middleton, eds., Writing Englishness 1900–1950: an Introductory Sourcebook on National Identity (London and New York, 1995), pp. 142–3.
John Haffenden, Novelists in Interview (London: Methuen, 1985), pp. 145–65.
For a survey of stereotypes of the German in English literature see Günther Blaicher, Das Deutschlandbild in der englischen Literatur (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1992). Ironically, one of the characters in the novel refers to The Student Prince as ‘real schmaltz’ (Shelter, p. 87).
For example in his article ‘Game, Set & Match: Konstanten und Varianten in Len Deighton’s geheimer Welt’, Anglistik und Englischunterricht 37 (1989): pp. 65–97.
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Mergenthal, S. (1999). ‘Nation and Narration’: Continental Europe and the English Novel. In: Fendler, S., Wittlinger, R. (eds) The Idea of Europe in Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27496-3_2
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