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Author | : Mary-Ann Constantine |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0708325912 |
Download Footsteps of 'Liberty and Revolt' Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of essays exploring the impact on Welsh culture of one of the most exciting periods in history, the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789.
Author | : Mary-Ann Constantine |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783160438 |
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The late eighteenth century was one of the most exciting and unsettling periods in European history, with the shock-waves of the French Revolution rippling around the world. As this collection of essays by leading scholars shows, Wales was no exception. From political pamphlets to a Denbighshire folk-play, from bardic poetry to the remodelling of the Welsh landscape itself, responses to the revolutionary ferment of ideas took many forms. We see how Welsh poets and preachers negotiated complex London–Wales networks of patronage and even more complex issues of national and cultural loyalty; and how the landscape itself is reimagined in fiction, remodelled à la Rousseau, while it rapidly emptied as impoverished farming families emigrated to the New World. Drawing on a wealth of vibrant material in both Welsh and English, much of it unpublished, this collection marks another important contribution to ‘four nations’ criticism, and offers new insights into the tensions and flashpoints of Romantic-period Wales.
Author | : Marion Löffler |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783161027 |
Download Political Pamphlets and Sermons from Wales 1790-1806 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is essential reading for anybody who wishes to be fully informed of the British Revolution debate and/or teach the history of the French Revolution and the Enlightenment in Great Britain. All Welsh texts are translated, which makes them accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Four illustrations, among them the first political cartoon in the Welsh language, add valuable visual material and information.
Author | : Paul Frame |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2015-03-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1783162171 |
Download Liberty's Apostle - Richard Price, His Life and Times Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Born in the village of Llangeinor, near Bridgend in south Wales, Richard Price (1723–91) was, to his contemporaries, an apostle of liberty, an enemy to tyranny and a great benefactor of the human race. His friend Benjamin Franklin described aspects of his work as ‘the foremost production of human understanding that this century has afforded us’. A supporter of the American and French Revolutions, Price corresponded with the likes of Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Mirabeau and Condorcet. In November 1789 he publicly welcomed the start of the French Revolution and thus inspired not only Edmund Burke to write his rebuttal in Reflections on the Revolution in France, but also the Revolution Controversy, ‘the most crucial ideological debate ever carried on in English’. Price also brought to world attention the Bayes-Price Theorem on probability, which is the invisible background to so much in modern life, and wrote a fundamental text on moral philosophy. Yet, despite all this and more, he remains little-known beyond academia, a situation that this biography helps to rectify. Liberty’s Apostle tells his life story through his published works and, fully for the first time, his now published correspondence with a host of eighteenth century celebrities. The life revealed is of a truly remarkable Welshman and, as Condorcet remarked, of ‘one of the formative minds’ of the eighteenth century Enlightenment.
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Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0708325599 |
Download Travels in Revolutionary France and a Journey Across America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In July 1789 George Cadogan Morgan, born in Bridgend, Wales, and the nephew of the celebrated radical dissenter Richard Price (1723-91), found himself caught up in the opening events of the French Revolution and its consequences. In 1808, his family left Britain for America where his son, Richard Price Morgan, travelled extensively, made a descent of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers by raft and helped build some of the early American railroads. The adventures of both men are related here via letters George sent home to his family from France and through the autobiography written by his son in America.
Author | : Cathryn A Charnell-White |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2012-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0708325297 |
Download Welsh Poetry of the French Revolution, 1789-1805 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This anthology of Welsh poetry and English translations presents some of Wales's radical and reactionary responses to the French Revolution and its cultural legacy, 1789-1805.
Author | : British Academy Global Professor Robert Morrison |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 993 |
Release | : 2024-09-13 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0198834543 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is a full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British Romantic nonfiction prose. Organized into eight parts, each containing between five and nine chapters arranged alphabetically, the Handbook weaves together familiar and unfamiliar texts, events, and authors, and invites readers to draw comparisons, reimagine connections and disconnections, and confront frequently stark contradictions, within British Romantic nonfiction prose, but also in its relationship to British Romanticism more generally, and to the literary practices and cultural contexts of other periods and countries. The Handbook builds on previous scholarship in the field, considers emerging trends and evolving methodologies, and suggests future areas of study. Throughout the emphasis is on lucid expression rather than gnomic declaration, and on chapters that offer, not a dutiful survey, but evaluative assessments that keep an eye on the bigger picture yet also dwell meaningfully on specific paradoxes and the most telling examples. Taken as a whole the volume demonstrates the energy, originality, and diversity at the crux of British Romantic nonfiction prose. It vigorously challenges the traditional construction of the British Romantic movement as focused too exclusively on the accomplishments of its poets, and it reveals the many ways in which scholars of the period are steadily broadening out and opening up delineations of British Romanticism in order to encompass and thoroughly evaluate the achievements of its nonfiction prose writers.
Author | : Marion Gibson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0415628687 |
Download Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradition and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative and fiction to shape identity, with particular reference to the British and Celtic contexts. The authors consider how aspects of the past are reinterpreted or reimagined in a variety of ways to give coherence to desired national groupings, or groups aspiring to nationhood and its 'defence'. The coverage is unusually broad in its historical sweep, dealing with work from prehistory to the contemporary, with a particular emphasis on the period from the eighteenth century to the present. The subject matter includes notions of ancient deities, Druids, Celticity, the archaeological remains of pagan religions, traditional folk tales, racial and religious myths and ethnic politics, and the different types of returns and hauntings that can recycle these ideas in culture. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the scholarship in Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity is mainly literary but also geographical and historical and draws on religious studies, politics and the social sciences. Thus the collection offers a stimulatingly broad number of new viewpoints on a matter of great topical relevance: national identity and the politicization of its myths.
Author | : Elizabeth Edwards |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0708325696 |
Download English-language Poetry from Wales 1789-1806 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This new selection of Anglophone Welsh poetry presents a range of literary responses to the French Revolution and the ensuing wars with France, a period in which Wales and its history became prime imaginative territory for poets of all political sympathies.
Author | : John Kirk |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317320654 |
Download Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of essays addresses the role of literature in radical politics. Topics covered include the legacy of Robert Burns, broadside literature in Munster and radical literature in Wales.