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Claiming Cambria
Invoking the Welsh in the Romantic Era
Shawna Lichtenwalner
This book investigates the cultural impact of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century portrayals of Wales and the Welsh. During the Romantic era Welsh history was invoked by both English and Welsh writers in order to define the role of Wales in British culture, but the nature of that role was a matter of active debate. Some representations of the Welsh sought to memorialize the Welsh past while insisting on the irrelevance of continuing to distinguish between Welsh and English culture. This negotiation between groups who use history as a way of eulogizing the past and those who want to connect active communities with an identifiable (if often fictitious) past marks two different approaches to historiography in the Romantic era, and has implications that reach beyond Wales.
Details
Details
Author
Author
University Press Copublishing Division / University of Delaware Press
Pages: 202 Trim: 6¾ x 9¾
978-1-61149-087-9 • Hardback • April 2008 •
$86.00
• (£66.00)
Subjects:
Literary Criticism / Reference
,
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
,
History / Historiography
,
History / Modern / 18th Century
,
History / Social History
,
Literary Criticism / General
,
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Shawna Lichtenwalner
is assistant professor at East Tennessee State University.
Claiming Cambria
Invoking the Welsh in the Romantic Era
Hardback
$86.00
Summary
Summary
This book investigates the cultural impact of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century portrayals of Wales and the Welsh. During the Romantic era Welsh history was invoked by both English and Welsh writers in order to define the role of Wales in British culture, but the nature of that role was a matter of active debate. Some representations of the Welsh sought to memorialize the Welsh past while insisting on the irrelevance of continuing to distinguish between Welsh and English culture. This negotiation between groups who use history as a way of eulogizing the past and those who want to connect active communities with an identifiable (if often fictitious) past marks two different approaches to historiography in the Romantic era, and has implications that reach beyond Wales.
Details
Details
University Press Copublishing Division / University of Delaware Press
Pages: 202 Trim: 6¾ x 9¾
978-1-61149-087-9 • Hardback • April 2008 •
$86.00
• (£66.00)
Subjects:
Literary Criticism / Reference
,
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
,
History / Historiography
,
History / Modern / 18th Century
,
History / Social History
,
Literary Criticism / General
,
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Author
Author
Shawna Lichtenwalner
is assistant professor at East Tennessee State University.
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