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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sarah Prescott |
| ISBN: | 9780708320532 0708320538 |
| OCLC Number: | 262953081 |
| Description: | xxiv, 206 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | 'What foes more dang'rous than too strong allies?' : the Society of Ancient Britons and Anglo-Welsh relations in eighteenth-century London -- The Cambrian muse : gender, Welsh identity and Hanoverian loyalty in the poems of Jane Brereton (1685-1740) -- 'Gray's pale spectre' : Evan Evans, translation and the rise of Welsh bardic nationalism -- 'Cambria triumphans' : patriotic poems of eighteenth-century Wales -- Narrating the nation : Wales in eighteenth-century fiction. |
| Series Title: | Writing Wales in English.; CREW series of critical and scholarly studies. |
| Responsibility: | Sarah Prescott. |
Abstract:
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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