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Author Prescott, Sarah, 1968-

Title Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales : Bards and Britons.

Publication Info. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (170 pages).
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Series Writing Wales in English
Writing Wales in English.
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 'What Foes more dang'rous than too strong Allies?': The Society of Ancient Britons and Anglo-Welsh Relations in Eighteenth-Century London -- 2 The Cambrian Muse: Gender, Welsh Identity and Hanoverian Loyalty in the Poems of Jane Brereton (1685-1740) -- 3 'Gray's Pale Spectre': Evan Evans, Translation and the Rise of Welsh Bardic Nationalism -- 4 'Cambria Triumphans': Patriotic Poems of Eighteenth-Century Wales -- 5 Narrating the Nation: Wales in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Note Notes -- Bibliography.
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Welsh literature -- 18th century.
Welsh literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject English literature -- Welsh authors -- 18th century.
English literature -- Welsh authors.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Prescott, Sarah Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales : Bards and Britons Cardiff : University of Wales Press,c2020
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