Writers of Wales: Owen Rhoscomyl

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Wrth fyfyrio ar ei orffennol lliwgar yn gowboi, yn hurfilwr ac yn arwr yn Rhyfel y Boer, creodd Owen Rhoscomyl ddelwedd wrywaidd, arwrol a milwrol i'r genedl Gymreig drwy gyfrwng ffuglen antur, hanes poblogaidd a phasiant cyhoeddus.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Reflecting his own colourful past as a cowboy, international mercenary and hero of the Boer War, Owen Rhoscomyl created a heroic, martial and masculine image of the Welsh nation through his adventure fiction, popular history and public spectacle.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Illustrations Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Bibliography Prelims

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

John S. Ellis is Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Flint.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Around the turn of the century, Welsh readers thrilled to the heroic stories of Owen Rhoscomyl. Having been a cowboy, frontiersman, soldier and mercenary, Rhoscomyl was as adventurous and exotic as his stories. Roving the wilds of the American West, Patagonia and South Africa before finally settling in Wales, Rhoscomyl was a flawed hero who led a rough life that exacted a personal price in poverty, delinquency and violence. He identified deeply with the Welsh nation as a source of tradition, legitimacy and belonging within a wider imperial world. As a popular commercial writer of historical romance, imperial adventure, popular history and public spectacle, he rejected accusations of national inferiority, effeminacy and defeatism in his depictions of the Welsh as an inherently masculine and martial people, accustomed to the rugged conditions of the frontier, ready to advance the glory of their nation and eager to lead the British imperial enterprise. This literary biography will explore the vaulting ambitions, real achievements, and bitter disappointments of the life, work and milieu of Owen Rhoscomyl.