Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales

Bards and Britons

Author(s) Sarah Prescott

Language: English

Genre(s): Welsh Interest

Series: Writing Wales in English

  • September 2020 · 224 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Paperback - 9780708320532
  • · eBook - pdf - 9781786837226
  • · eBook - epub - 9781786837233

About The Book

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.

About the Author(s)

Author(s): Sarah Prescott

Sarah Prescott is Professor of English Literature at Aberystwyth University.

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