Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies

This book uses models of 'world literature' to present this 'quintessentially English' writer as a pioneering figure in an Anglophone Welsh literary tradition, a controversial reading that contributes to the present-day reconfiguration of cultural relations between Wales, England, Scotland

This is an engagingly written, original, and intellectually rigorous book of criticism. Webb writes with such insight because he is alive to the many contexts Edward Thomas maps into, but never lets them overwhelm the singularity of Thomas's voice.