Author: Marion Löffler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"This volume analyses the public reception and criticism of the writings of Iolo Morganwg during the long nineteenth century, considers the development of his ideas about the Eisteddfod and the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, and reveals how the myth of 'old Iolo' took root at a time when Romanticism and nationalism gave rise to a historicist view of nationhood. The counterfeit material that Iolo added to historical sources was eagerly received by scholars in search of a core historical narrative and also inspired Romantics much farther afield. From the late Victorian period, however, a powerful critique of Iolo's legacy paved the way for more reputable twentieth-century Welsh scholarship. A selection of little-known key texts included in this volume also provides new insights into the way in which this legendary figure and his work were perceived." --Book Jacket.
The Literary and Historical Legacy of Iolo Morganwg, 1826-1926
Author: Marion Löffler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"This volume analyses the public reception and criticism of the writings of Iolo Morganwg during the long nineteenth century, considers the development of his ideas about the Eisteddfod and the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, and reveals how the myth of 'old Iolo' took root at a time when Romanticism and nationalism gave rise to a historicist view of nationhood. The counterfeit material that Iolo added to historical sources was eagerly received by scholars in search of a core historical narrative and also inspired Romantics much farther afield. From the late Victorian period, however, a powerful critique of Iolo's legacy paved the way for more reputable twentieth-century Welsh scholarship. A selection of little-known key texts included in this volume also provides new insights into the way in which this legendary figure and his work were perceived." --Book Jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"This volume analyses the public reception and criticism of the writings of Iolo Morganwg during the long nineteenth century, considers the development of his ideas about the Eisteddfod and the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, and reveals how the myth of 'old Iolo' took root at a time when Romanticism and nationalism gave rise to a historicist view of nationhood. The counterfeit material that Iolo added to historical sources was eagerly received by scholars in search of a core historical narrative and also inspired Romantics much farther afield. From the late Victorian period, however, a powerful critique of Iolo's legacy paved the way for more reputable twentieth-century Welsh scholarship. A selection of little-known key texts included in this volume also provides new insights into the way in which this legendary figure and his work were perceived." --Book Jacket.
'The Bard is a Very Singular Character'
Author: Ffion Mair Jones
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783164077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A cunning and successful literary forger, Iolo Morganwg has been a controversial figure within Welsh literary tradition and history ever since his death in 1826. During his lifetime, however, he was largely a figure on the margins of Welsh literary society, who found the task of getting his work into the coveted sphere of print culture a gargantuan one. This book examines how he dealt with the frustrations of his marginality – writing sardonic remarks in the margins of books published by his contemporaries, and submerging himself in a mound of scrap paper on which he wrote numerous drafts of poems and conducted original work on the Welsh language.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783164077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A cunning and successful literary forger, Iolo Morganwg has been a controversial figure within Welsh literary tradition and history ever since his death in 1826. During his lifetime, however, he was largely a figure on the margins of Welsh literary society, who found the task of getting his work into the coveted sphere of print culture a gargantuan one. This book examines how he dealt with the frustrations of his marginality – writing sardonic remarks in the margins of books published by his contemporaries, and submerging himself in a mound of scrap paper on which he wrote numerous drafts of poems and conducted original work on the Welsh language.
Bard of Liberty
Author: Geraint H. Jenkins
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708325009
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This is the first full-scale study of the political radicalism of Iolo Morganwg, the renowned Welsh romantic whose colourful life as a Glamorgan stonemason, poet, writer, political activist and humanitarian made him one of the founders of modern Wales. This path-breaking volume offers a vivid portrait of a natural contrarian who tilted against the forces of the establishment for the whole of his adult life. Known as the ‘Bard of Liberty’ or the ’little republican bard’, he moved in highly-politicized circles, embraced republicanism, founded the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, threw in his lot with Unitarians, promoted a sense of cultural nationalism, and supported the anti-slave trade campaign and the anti-war movement during years of war, oppression and cruelty.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708325009
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This is the first full-scale study of the political radicalism of Iolo Morganwg, the renowned Welsh romantic whose colourful life as a Glamorgan stonemason, poet, writer, political activist and humanitarian made him one of the founders of modern Wales. This path-breaking volume offers a vivid portrait of a natural contrarian who tilted against the forces of the establishment for the whole of his adult life. Known as the ‘Bard of Liberty’ or the ’little republican bard’, he moved in highly-politicized circles, embraced republicanism, founded the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, threw in his lot with Unitarians, promoted a sense of cultural nationalism, and supported the anti-slave trade campaign and the anti-war movement during years of war, oppression and cruelty.
I,Iolo
Author: Gareth Thomas
Publisher: Y Lolfa
ISBN: 1784615994
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Stori Iolo Morganwg, o fachgendod hyd at Orsedd Glynogwr yn 1798, wedi'i ysgrifennu yn y person cyntaf. Roedd sawl gwedd iddo: saer maen, ysgolhaig hunan-addysgiedig, bardd, emynydd, gwleidydd, cenedlgarwr, chwyldroadwr, derwydd, dyn busnes aflwyddiannus, un oedd yn gaeth i gyffuriau, ymgyrchydd dros hawliau dynol ac un a greodd un o'r ffugiadau llenyddol pennaf yn hanes Ewrop.
Publisher: Y Lolfa
ISBN: 1784615994
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Stori Iolo Morganwg, o fachgendod hyd at Orsedd Glynogwr yn 1798, wedi'i ysgrifennu yn y person cyntaf. Roedd sawl gwedd iddo: saer maen, ysgolhaig hunan-addysgiedig, bardd, emynydd, gwleidydd, cenedlgarwr, chwyldroadwr, derwydd, dyn busnes aflwyddiannus, un oedd yn gaeth i gyffuriau, ymgyrchydd dros hawliau dynol ac un a greodd un o'r ffugiadau llenyddol pennaf yn hanes Ewrop.
Myfi, Iolo
Author: Gareth Thomas
Publisher: Y Lolfa
ISBN: 178461534X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Nofel hanesyddol fyrlymus yn dilyn ol-troed un o gymeriadau mwyaf diddorol hanes Cymru, Iolo Morgannwg (Edward Willimas, 1747-1826). Nofel llawn antur, dirgelwch, cariad, gwrthryfel, trais, cyffuriau, angerdd, ysbiwyr a brad.
Publisher: Y Lolfa
ISBN: 178461534X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Nofel hanesyddol fyrlymus yn dilyn ol-troed un o gymeriadau mwyaf diddorol hanes Cymru, Iolo Morgannwg (Edward Willimas, 1747-1826). Nofel llawn antur, dirgelwch, cariad, gwrthryfel, trais, cyffuriau, angerdd, ysbiwyr a brad.
J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History
Author: Huw Pryce
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708323901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This is the first book about the historian John Edward Lloyd (1861 - 1947), whose A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (1911) marks a turning point in the writing of Welsh history.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708323901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This is the first book about the historian John Edward Lloyd (1861 - 1947), whose A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (1911) marks a turning point in the writing of Welsh history.
Welsh Responses to the French Revolution
Author: Marion Löffler
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708324908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The serial literature current in Wales between 1789 and 1802 is the most important public repository of radical, loyalist and patriotic Welsh responses to the French Revolution and the Revolutionary Wars. This anthology presents a selection of poetry and prose published in the annual Welsh almanacs, the English provincial newspapers published close to Wales’s border and the three radical Welsh periodicals of the mid-1790s, together with translations of the Welsh texts. An extended introduction sketches out the printing culture of Wales, analyses its public discourse and interprets the Welsh voices in their British political context.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708324908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The serial literature current in Wales between 1789 and 1802 is the most important public repository of radical, loyalist and patriotic Welsh responses to the French Revolution and the Revolutionary Wars. This anthology presents a selection of poetry and prose published in the annual Welsh almanacs, the English provincial newspapers published close to Wales’s border and the three radical Welsh periodicals of the mid-1790s, together with translations of the Welsh texts. An extended introduction sketches out the printing culture of Wales, analyses its public discourse and interprets the Welsh voices in their British political context.
Welsh Poetry of the French Revolution, 1789-1805
Author: Cathryn A Charnell-White
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708325297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708325297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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.
Writing a Small Nation's Past
Author: Neil Evans
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134786689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
This is the first volume to examine how the history of Wales was written in a period that saw the emergence of professional historiography, largely focused on the nation, across Europe and in the United States. It thus sets Wales in the context of recent work on national history writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and, more particularly, offers a Welsh perspective on the ways in which history was written in small, mainly stateless, nations. The comparative dimension is fundamental to the volume's aim, highlighting what was distinctive about Welsh historical writing and showing how the Welsh experience mirrors and illuminates broader historiographical developments. The book begins with an introduction that uses the concept of historical culture as a way of exploring the different strands of historiography covered in the collection, providing orientation to the chapters that follow. These are divided into four sections: 'Contexts and Backgrounds', 'Amateurs and Popularizers', 'Creating Academic Disciplines', and 'Comparative Perspectives'. All these themes are then drawn together in the conclusion to examine how far Welsh historians exemplify widespread trends in the writing of national history, and thereby point-up common themes that emerge from the volume and clarify its broader significance for students of historiography.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134786689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
This is the first volume to examine how the history of Wales was written in a period that saw the emergence of professional historiography, largely focused on the nation, across Europe and in the United States. It thus sets Wales in the context of recent work on national history writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and, more particularly, offers a Welsh perspective on the ways in which history was written in small, mainly stateless, nations. The comparative dimension is fundamental to the volume's aim, highlighting what was distinctive about Welsh historical writing and showing how the Welsh experience mirrors and illuminates broader historiographical developments. The book begins with an introduction that uses the concept of historical culture as a way of exploring the different strands of historiography covered in the collection, providing orientation to the chapters that follow. These are divided into four sections: 'Contexts and Backgrounds', 'Amateurs and Popularizers', 'Creating Academic Disciplines', and 'Comparative Perspectives'. All these themes are then drawn together in the conclusion to examine how far Welsh historians exemplify widespread trends in the writing of national history, and thereby point-up common themes that emerge from the volume and clarify its broader significance for students of historiography.
The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature
Author: Geraint Evans
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107106761
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107106761
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.