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Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales

Bards and Britons

Author(s) Sarah Prescott

Paperback - £9.99

Language: English

Genre(s): Literary Studies, Wales Studies

Series: Writing Wales in English

August 2008 · 224 pages ·216x138mm

· Paperback - 9780708320532
· eBook - pdf - 9781786837226
· eBook - epub - 9781786837233

About the Book
About the Author(s)

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

Author(s): Sarah Prescott

Dr. Sarah Prescott is a Lecturer in English Literature at Aberystwyth University. She has received an AHRB Research Leave Scheme for this proposal which was rated A+ by the review panel. She is the author of Women, Authorship and Literary Culture, 1690 - 1740 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and has contributed to numerous edited collections and journals.