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Gothic Literary Studies: Welsh Gothic
Gothic Literary Studies: Welsh Gothic
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Dyma gyfrol sy'n edrych ar y modd y mae Cymru wedi'i chynrychioli mewn llenyddiaeth Gothig oddi ar ddiwedd y ddeunawfed ganrif, a hynny mewn llên Gymraeg a Saesneg.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
Drawing upon both Welsh- and English-language materials, Welsh Gothic explores the diverse ways in which Wales has been represented in Gothic literature from the late eighteenth century to the present day.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780708326084
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780708326084
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Gothic Literary Studies: Welsh Gothic
- Awdur / Author
- Aaron, Jane
- Current Price ex VAT
- £24.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £24.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Non-Stock Item - Ordered on request
- Availability Status (CY)
- Archebir yn ôl y galw
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2013-04-22
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 288 pages
- Size
- 138 × 216 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Astudiaethau a Thestunau Llenyddol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Literary Studies and Texts (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Astudiaethau Llenyddol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Literary Studies (in English)
Cynnwys / Table of Contents
Part I. Haunted by History Chapter 1. Cambria Gothica (1780s-1820s) i. Romantic tourists in Gothic Wales ii. In the Devil’s Parlour iii. Acts of Union iv. Gothic Histories Chapter 2. An Underworld of One’s Own (1830s-1900s) i. The Doom of the Cymry ii. Embracing the Underworld iii. Arthur Machen’s Underworld in the West Chapter 3. Haunted Communities (1900s-1940s) i. The Devil in Zion ii. Coalfield Gothic Chapter 4. Land of the Living Dead (1940s-1997) i. The Return of the Repressed ii. A Zombie Culture iii. Border Vampires Part II. ‘Things that go bump in the Celtic Twilight’ Chapter 5. Witches, Druids and the Hounds of Annwn i. The Witch as Wise Woman and Avenger ii. Druid Sacrifice iii. Hunting with Hellhounds Chapter 6. The Sin-eater i. The Historical Sin-eater ii. The Welsh Sin-eater in Literature Sin-eating beyond Wales
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Jane Aaron, Professor of Literature at the University of Glamorgan, edits Honno Press’s Welsh Women’s Classics series. Her monograph Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing in Wales won the 2009 Roland Mathias Prize.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Welsh Gothic , the first study of its kind, introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day. Informed by postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, it argues that many of the fears encoded in Welsh Gothic writing are specific to the history of Welsh people, telling us much about the changing ways in which Welsh people have historically seen themselves and been perceived by others. The first part of the book explores Welsh Gothic writing from its beginnings in the last decades of the eighteenth century to 1997. The second part focuses on figures specific to the Welsh Gothic genre who enter literature from folk lore and local superstition, such as the sin-eater, cŵn Annwn (hellhounds), dark druids and Welsh witches.
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