In the Shadow of the Pulpit - Literature and Nonconformist Wales

Klappentext Since the earliest days of language, writers and preachers have been locked in a struggle for power and authority. "In the Shadow of the Pulpit" shows how that struggle has been at the heart of Welsh writing for more than two centuries, intimately shaping the English-language literature produced in Wales in that time. It traces the growing literary response to the power of Welsh Nonconformity from the eighteenth century onwards, and it also uncovers a whole new body of nineteenth-century fiction from Wales. Zusammenfassung Ranging from the nineteenth century to the present! this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was! for a crucial period of a century or so! the dominant culture of Wales: the culture of Welsh nonconformity.

Product details

• Authors: M. Wynn Thomas, M. Wynn Thomas, M.Wynn Thomas
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2009
• EAN: 9780708322253
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2225-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Writing Wales in English; Writing Wales in English
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies