Between Wales and England

Anglophone Welsh Writing of the Eighteenth Century

By (author) Bethan Jenkins

Publication date:

01 March 2017

Length of book:

304 pages

Publisher

University of Wales Press

Dimensions:

216x138mm

ISBN-13: 9781786830296

Between Wales and England is an exploration of eighteenth-century anglophone Welsh writing by authors for whom English-language literature was mostly a secondary concern. In its process, the work interrogates these authors’ views on the newly-emerging sense of ‘Britishness’, finding them in many cases to be more nuanced and less resistant than has generally been considered. It looks primarily at the English-language works of Lewis Morris, Evan Evans, and Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) in the context of both their Welsh- and English-language influences and time spent travelling between the two countries, considering how these authors responded to and reimagined the new national identity through their poetry and prose.