Rhys Davies

Klappentext Rhys Davies (1901-78) was a highly prolific writer and one of the first novelists to depict industrial Wales! making his sixty-year career a seminal influence of Welsh literary culture. Davies was a complicated figure himself: a gay man who grew up as a shopkeeper's son in the Rhondda! he ultimately left Wales to write about his homeland in England. This volume unravels his national experience and its deep ties to complex issues of class! sexuality! and gender! as it follows a career considered to be that of "the representative Welshman." Zusammenfassung Rhys Davies was a seminal influence in Welsh writing because he was one of the first novelists to depict industrial Wales! and was a highly prolific writer producing some twenty novels and one hundred short stories in a career that spanned six decades. This book addresses Davies' struggle to enter the privileged circles of literary production.

Product details

• Authors: Huw Osborne, Huw Edwin Osborne
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2009
• EAN: 9780708321676
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2167-6
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Writers of Wales; Writers of Wales
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies