When the English poet and critic Matthew Arnold looked west from Llandudno in 1864 at a land 'where the past still lives', he contributed to a body of English-language material that presented contemporary Wales as antique, attenuated, melancholy and 'other'. This article assesses the historiography that informed Arnold's perception, and looks at the contrast found in the period's Welshlanguage output, which was 'unconcerned about models of its past' and 'never more confident in the sufficiency of its own immediate resources'. It surveys the modernity found, inter alia, in the institution of the eisteddfod, self-help manuals, advertisements for patent medicines, encyclopaedias and triumphalist Nonconformist histories. Wales, it concludes, wo...
This article explores representations of Wales in W. G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz (2001). It conside...
As Jane Aaron observes, as a setting for novels of sensibility and domestic fiction, Wales ‘could pr...
This article explores the relationship between Tide-race, a 1962 memoir by the Welsh poet and artist...
When the English poet and critic Matthew Arnold looked west from Llandudno in 1864 at a land 'where ...
Taking the development of picturesque tourism in Wales since the publication of William Gilpin’s Obs...
The genesis of a Welsh literature written in the English language can be found in the turbulent midd...
History - both in the sense of the past itself and representations of that past - has been employed ...
Writing Wales explores representations of Wales in English and Welsh literatures written across a br...
From the defeat of Llewelyn by Mortimer in 1284 until the union with England in 1536 the Welsh had c...
Wales in the period c.1870-c.1920 was home to massive heavy industry, accompanied by a huge upsurge ...
The aim of this thesis was to test what has been the standard view of English-language writing in Wa...
Taking the development of picturesque tourism in Wales since the publication of William Gilpin’s Obs...
This thesis explores the emergence of a Welsh voice in exile in London at the turn of the twentieth ...
This paper will evaluate the work of contemporary Welsh writer Owen Sheers in the light of a number...
This book represents the longest single-volume work on modern Welsh literature ever published, and p...
This article explores representations of Wales in W. G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz (2001). It conside...
As Jane Aaron observes, as a setting for novels of sensibility and domestic fiction, Wales ‘could pr...
This article explores the relationship between Tide-race, a 1962 memoir by the Welsh poet and artist...
When the English poet and critic Matthew Arnold looked west from Llandudno in 1864 at a land 'where ...
Taking the development of picturesque tourism in Wales since the publication of William Gilpin’s Obs...
The genesis of a Welsh literature written in the English language can be found in the turbulent midd...
History - both in the sense of the past itself and representations of that past - has been employed ...
Writing Wales explores representations of Wales in English and Welsh literatures written across a br...
From the defeat of Llewelyn by Mortimer in 1284 until the union with England in 1536 the Welsh had c...
Wales in the period c.1870-c.1920 was home to massive heavy industry, accompanied by a huge upsurge ...
The aim of this thesis was to test what has been the standard view of English-language writing in Wa...
Taking the development of picturesque tourism in Wales since the publication of William Gilpin’s Obs...
This thesis explores the emergence of a Welsh voice in exile in London at the turn of the twentieth ...
This paper will evaluate the work of contemporary Welsh writer Owen Sheers in the light of a number...
This book represents the longest single-volume work on modern Welsh literature ever published, and p...
This article explores representations of Wales in W. G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz (2001). It conside...
As Jane Aaron observes, as a setting for novels of sensibility and domestic fiction, Wales ‘could pr...
This article explores the relationship between Tide-race, a 1962 memoir by the Welsh poet and artist...
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