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Wales and the French Revolution: Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution
Wales and the French Revolution: Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Casgliad o faledi Cymraeg a gyfansoddwyd yn ystod cyfnod hynod o bwysig yn hanes gwareiddiad y Gorllewin. Mae'r testunau'n ymateb i derfysgoedd Ffrainc 1793-1815 ac yn canu am ymateb pobl gwledydd Prydain i drais y terfysgoedd.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
An edition of Welsh ballads composed during a momentous period in the history of Western civilization. The texts respond to the upheavals of the Revolutionary decade and its aftermath, as people in Britain began to react to the violent deaths of the French monarchs, to the danger of invasion attempts or imitative revolts in Britain, and to the challenge of mobilization.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780708324615
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780708324615
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Wales and the French Revolution: Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution
- Awdur / Author
- Jones, Ffion Mair
- Current Price ex VAT
- £6.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £6.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Non-Stock Item - Ordered on request
- Availability Status (CY)
- Archebir yn ôl y galw
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2012-02-14
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 490 pages
- Size
- 156 × 234 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
Introduction Responding to Revolution The Voices of Dissent: The ballads of south-west Wales (1793) ‘Faithful Britons’: The loyalist response (1793–4) The Fishguard Invasion (1797): Loyalty, identity and the hand of God Taking up Arms: Militia, volunteers and the army (1793–1815) War-reporting (1794–1815) The Duke of York (1793, 1794) The Glorious First of June and Cape St Vincent (1794, 1797) Nelson ballads (1805) Napoleon ballads (1812–15) Conclusion
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Dr Ffion Mair Jones has been a Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies since October 2001, working initially on the ‘Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic Tradition in Wales’ project and currently on the ‘Wales and the French Revolution Project’.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Scholars working on the British response to the Revolution have showed increasing interest in exploring the contents of ballads and songs. The ballad in particular is seen as a vital source of information, since it represents ordinary people’s awareness of the developments of the period. Balladry is also subject to continued research within Welsh scholarship, and this volume, with its focus on a clearly defined historical period and its revelation of new voices within the canon of Welsh ballad writers, will drive this field of study forwards. Regional reactions to the Revolution within the British Isles are also now seen as crucially important, but Wales, partly because of the inaccessibility of material composed in the Welsh language, has repeatedly been omitted from the general picture. Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution (1793-1815) aids in rectifying this situation. It presents parallel translations of the text, copious contextualizing notes, and a lengthy introduction, providing access for the first time to a corpus of ballads composed by a host of little-known authors thus placing both Wales and the ballad as a genre on the map of British reactions to the Revolution in France.
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