Notes to pages 76–81 171
- In the late sixteenth century, William Camden splits the Fens into lowlands and uplands
according to its inhabitants’ professions rather than the actual terrain, suggesting that
the region’s topography has regularly served an imaginative, metaphorical function. He
describes the traditional fen-dwellers as the ‘kind of people according to the nature of the
place where they dwell rude, uncivill, and envious to all others whom they call Vpland-
men: who stalking on high upon stilts, apply their mindes, to grasing, fi shing and fowling’.
W. Camden, Britain (London, 1637), Text Creation Partnership digital edition. Early
English Books Online, at http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home [accessed 31 July 2013]. - Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, pp. 14, 3.
- Ibid., p. 5.
- N. Vance, Th e Sinews of the Spirit: Th e Ideal of Christian Manliness in Victorian Literature
and Religious Th ought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 1. - P. Brantlinger, ‘Race and the Victorian Novel’, in D. David (ed.), Th e Cambridge Com-
panion to the Victorian Novel, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012),
pp. 149–68, on p. 131. - M. Young, ‘History as Myth: Charles Kingsley’s Hereward the Wake’, Studies in the Novel,
17:2 (Summer 1985), pp. 174–88. - D. E. Hall, ‘On the Making and Unmaking of Monsters: Christian Socialism, Muscular
Christianity, and the Metaphorization of Class Confl ict’, in D. E. Hall (ed.), Muscular
Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1994), pp. 45–65. - Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, p. 6.
- Ibid., p. 5.
- David C. Harvey charts the development of heritage in the British Isles, including the
debt owed by the industry to cultural fi gures from Walter Scott (who ‘opened up the
beginnings of what may be termed a “mass market” for popular national heritage’) to
Charles Kingsley: ‘a fashion for Saxonism was supported by a cult of Alfred the Great
together with the best-selling novel Hereward the Wake’. See D. Harvey, ‘Th e History of
Heritage’, in B. Graham and P. Howard (eds), Th e Ashgate Research Companion to Herit-
age and Identity (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), pp. 19–36, on p. 28. - Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, p. 14.
- H. Butterfi eld, Th e Historical Novel: An Essay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1924), pp. 42, 15–16. - I. Duncan, ‘Scott and the Historical Novel: A Scottish Rise of the Novel’, in G. Car-
ruthers and L. McIlvanney (eds), Th e Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 103–6, on p. 108. - Butterfi eld, Th e Historical Novel, p. 42.
- B. Melman, ‘Claiming the Nation’s Past: Th e Invention of an Anglo-Saxon Tradition’,
Journal of Contemporary History, 26:3 (1991), pp. 575–95, on p. 585. - Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, p. 4.
- Ibid., p. 139.
- Ibid., p. 154.
- Ibid., p. 6, my italics.
- Ibid., p. 4.
- Ibid., p. 29.
- Ibid., pp. 37, 31.
- Ibid., p. 142.
- Ibid., p. 17.