Eighteenth Century Writing From Wales - Bards and Britons

Klappentext "Eighteenth-Century Writing from Wales" examines Welsh writing in English in the context of recent critical debates concerning the rise of cultural nationalism and the "invention" of Great Britain as a nation in the eighteenth century. This volume represents the first study of Welsh literature in English alongside this literary negotiation of Britishness! and the group of texts discussed provides an important contribution to the ways in which Anglophone literature from and about Wales imagined the nation and its culture in a range of genres including poetry! fiction! and religious writing. Zusammenfassung Examines Welsh writing in English in the context of critical debates concerning the rise of cultural nationalism and the 'invention' of Great Britain as a nation in the eighteenth century. This study investigates the ways in which Anglophone literature from and about Wales imagines the nation and its culture in a range of genres.

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• Authors: Sarah Prescott, Prescott Sarah
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.08.2008
• EAN: 9780708320532
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2053-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Writing Wales in English; Writing Wales in English
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Wales, English, Writing, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, From, Century, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800, Britons, Eighteenth, Bards