Oxford Literary History of Wales - Volume 2. Writing in Welsh, C. 1740-2010: A Troubled Heritage

An overview of Welsh literature that reveals how changing readerships across time have shaped the nature and purpose of what has been produced.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction


• 1: Reading the Word, 1740-90


• 2: Reading the world, 1740-90


• 3: Continuing literature, 1740-90


• 4: Four sketches, 1790-1810


• 5: The short nineteenth century: 1810-45


• 6: Nonconformist Hegemony, 1840-75


• 7: Authors in search of a character, 1875-1900


• 8: Academics and rustics, 1900-20


• 9: Between the wars, 1920-39


• 10: The War and after: 1939-50


• 11: Absences, deaths, retreats and entrances: the 1950s and early 1960s


• 12: Bridges and walls, 1962-79


• 13: The removal of badges, 1979-97


• 14: Ten years, 1997-2006


• Appendix 1: Cynghanedd


• Appendix 2: The Eisteddfod


• Author Biographies


• Suggestions for Further Reading


• Works Cited

About the author

Robin Chapman worked as a lexicographer and teacher before beginning his academic career in the School of Education, Aberystwyth University, moving in 2003 to the Department of Welsh and Celtic Studies. He has published extensively in biography and literary criticism, with a particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth century. In 2004, he was awarded a DLitt by the University of Wales for a collection of his published work; and has since been elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and the Royal Historical Society.

Summary

An overview of Welsh literature that reveals how changing readerships across time have shaped the nature and purpose of what has been produced.

Product details

• Authors: T. Robin Chapman, T. Robin (Senior Lecturer Chapman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.04.2020
• EAN: 9780199562268
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956226-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Oxford Literary History of Wales
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Wales, European History, English, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Wales, British & Irish history, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000