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The Importance of Being English
2014
Overview
Published in 1835, this poem presented, for its Montreal readership, both an English identity and a British one, using the two interchangeably. The imagery is clear: the oak, the yew and the battles are all English, iconic signifiers of a sense of Englishness; but they are also British. In this conflation lies the problem that historians of the English face: how do we define English identity as distinct from British identity? In the Canadian context, but particularly in the province of Quebec, English identity is further problematized because English serves not only as an ethnic identity but also as the
