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Eighteenth-century writing from Wales : bards and britons
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Eighteenth-century writing from Wales : bards and britons

Author: Sarah Prescott
Publisher: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2008.
Series: Writing Wales in English.; CREW series of critical and scholarly studies.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book 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. The study investigates the ways in which Anglophone literature from and about Wales imagines the nation and its culture in a range of genres including poetry, fiction, letters, and religious writing. Its aim in  Read more...
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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.

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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  Read more...

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