1. Ian Dyck, William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 40.
2. William Hazlitt, ‘Character of Cobbett’, The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, ed. P. P. Howe, 21 vols (London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1930–4), vol. 8, Table Talk, p. 54.
3. David Simpson,’ seen through the Loopholes’, review of Mary Favret, War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010)
4. Raymond Williams, Culture and Society, 1780–1950 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1967 (1958)), p. 23.
5. Tom Paulin, The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt’s Radical Style (London: Faber and Faber, 1998), p. 81.