Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales

Bards and Britons

By (author) Sarah Prescott

Publication date:

14 August 2008

Length of book:

224 pages

Publisher

University of Wales Press

Dimensions:

216x138mm

ISBN-13: 9780708320532

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