The Nations of Wales
1890-1914
Seiten
2016
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78316-837-8 (ISBN)
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78316-837-8 (ISBN)
This book argues that several competing images of Welshness were put in circulation during the Victorian and Edwardian decades, and proceeds to examine several of the most influential of these as they took the form of literary texts.
Certain simple and stereotypical images of Wales strike an immediate chord with the public, both in Wales itself and beyond its borders. For much of the twentieth century, the country was thought of as ‘The Valleys’, a land of miners and choirs and rugby clubs. This image of a ‘Proletarian Wales’ (with its attendant Socialist politics) dominated popular imagination, just as the image of ‘Nonconformist Wales’ – a Wales of chapels and of a grimly puritan society – had gripped the imagination of the High Victorian era. But what of the Wales of the late Victorian and Edwardian decades? What image of Wales prevailed at that time of revolutionary social, economic, cultural, religious and political change? This book argues that several competing images of Welshness were put in circulation during that time, and proceeds to examine several of the most influential of these as they took the form of literary texts.
Certain simple and stereotypical images of Wales strike an immediate chord with the public, both in Wales itself and beyond its borders. For much of the twentieth century, the country was thought of as ‘The Valleys’, a land of miners and choirs and rugby clubs. This image of a ‘Proletarian Wales’ (with its attendant Socialist politics) dominated popular imagination, just as the image of ‘Nonconformist Wales’ – a Wales of chapels and of a grimly puritan society – had gripped the imagination of the High Victorian era. But what of the Wales of the late Victorian and Edwardian decades? What image of Wales prevailed at that time of revolutionary social, economic, cultural, religious and political change? This book argues that several competing images of Welshness were put in circulation during that time, and proceeds to examine several of the most influential of these as they took the form of literary texts.
an academic and a keen lay readership
1Emblematizing the nation
2Performing political identity
3O.M. Edwards: keeping track of the gwerin
4Literature and the political nation
5The Celtic
6T. Gwynn Jones: the once and future Wales
7Evan Roberts: The Ghost Dance of Welsh Nonconformity
8Arthur Machen: border disputes
Erscheinungsdatum | 18.07.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Writing Wales in English |
Zusatzinfo | No |
Verlagsort | Wales |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78316-837-4 / 1783168374 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78316-837-8 / 9781783168378 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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