Footsteps of Liberty and Revolt: Essays on Wales and the French Revolution - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0708325904 ISBN 13 : 9780708325902

Editeur : University of Wales Press, 2013

Synopsis

The late eighteenth century was one of the most exciting and unsettling periods in European history, with the shock-waves of the French Revolution rippling around the world. As this collection of essays by leading scholars shows, Wales was no exception. From political pamphlets to a Denbighshire folk-play, from bardic poetry to the remodelling of the Welsh landscape itself, responses to the revolutionary ferment of ideas took many forms. We see how Welsh poets and preachers negotiated complex London Wales networks of patronage and even more complex issues of national and cultural loyalty; and how the landscape itself is reimagined in fiction, remodelled à la Rousseau, while it rapidly emptied as impoverished farming families emigrated to the New World. Drawing on a wealth of vibrant material in both Welsh and English, much of it unpublished, this collection marks another important contribution to four nations criticism, and offers new insights into the tensions and flashpoints of Romantic-period Wales.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mary-Ann Constantine is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, and Dafydd Johnston is Director of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wales Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0708325904
• ISBN 13: 9780708325902
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Éditeur: Johnston Dafydd, Constantine Mary-Ann
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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