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The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds
This book fills the Iberian linguistic and geographical gap in Arthurian studies, replacing the now-outdated work by William J. Entwistle (1925). It covers Arthurian material in all the major Peninsular Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician); it follows the spread …
View book details for Discovering Dylan Thomas
A Companion to the Collected Poems and Notebook Poems
Discovering Dylan Thomas is a companion to Dylan Thomass published and notebook poems. It includes hitherto-unseen material contained in the recently-discovered fifth notebook, alongside poems, drafts and critical material including summaries of the critical reception of individual poems. The introductory …
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The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-century Welsh Explorer
This experimental volume of literary criticism offers various interpretations of the work of the poet Menna Elfyn, and gives an outline of our relationship with literature and our reading habits. It is an attempt to provide a fresh interpretation of …
View book details for Gentility in Early Modern Wales
The Salesbury Family, 14501720
OPEN ACCESS To read the PDF of Gentility in Early Modern Wales: The Salesbury Family, 14501720 for free, follow the link below Gentility in Early Modern Wales: The Salesbury Family, 14501720 (uwp.co.uk) This book is freely available on a Creative …
View book details for Religion, Loyalty and Sedition
The Hanoverian Succession of 1714
The Hanoverian Succession of 1714 has not attracted the scholarly attention that it deserves. This is partly because the idea of the long eighteenth century, stretching from 1688 to 1832, has tended to treat the period as one without breaks. …
View book details for Reading Medieval Anchoritism
Ideology and Spiritual Practices
Medieval anchorites willingly embraced the most extreme form of solitude known to the medieval world, so they might forge a closer connection with God. Yet to be physically enclosed within the same four walls for life required strength far beyond …
View book details for People, Places and Passions
A Social History of Wales and the Welsh 18701948 Volume 1
The first of two volumes on the social history of Wales in the period 18701948, People, Places and Passions concentrates on the social events and changes which created and forged Wales into the mid-twentieth century. This volume considers a range …
This book is the first biography of Huw T. Edwards (1929 1970), a key figure in the Welsh labour movement, who was known in the 1950s as the unofficial Prime Minister of Wales. He was of working-class origin, a Welsh …
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Ashley Drummond is an elite swimmer. Clayton Sandalford is a talented artist. From the moment of their first meeting, they were destined to be together. Staying together, however, will test the limits of their love. A world-record swim, and the …
Perfect for fans of Robert Beatty and Shannon Hale comes a magical new middle grade fantasy series about a young shapeshifter trying to save her family. Deep within an enchanted forest lies a castle where a set of triplets and …
It is the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of the hospital in Iasi, Romania. He is deaf and mute, but a young nurse named Safta recognizes him from the past and brings him paper and …
A whirlwind Manhattan romance like you've never read before from the Booker Prize nominated author of Ducks, Newburyport.It's Christmas Eve in Manhattan. An eminent plastic surgeon slips on the ice, lands on his butt, and sprains his ankle. So far, …
Get your backstage pass to the world-famous Rockfield Recording Studios in Monmouth, Wales. Featuring frank and funny interviews with the artists who recorded there and studio staff, Rock Legends at Rockfield reveals the fascinating stories behind some of the worlds …
An organized womens suffrage movement operated continuously in Britain for more than sixty years, from the mid 1860s until the achievement of equal voting rights with men in 1928. In the decade prior to the outbreak of the First World …
The Horror genre has become one of the most popular genres of TV drama with the global success and fandom surrounding The Walking Dead, Supernatural and Stranger Things. Horror has always had a truly international reach, and nowhere is this …
View book details for War and Society in Medieval Wales 633-1283
Welsh Military Institutions
Waless development as a post-Roman successor state is established in this groundbreaking study of medieval warfare and society. Dominant perceptions of the country in this formative period come from Gerald of Wales, who portrayed a race of noble savages, but …
View book details for Welsh Responses to the French Revolution
Press and Public Discourse, 1789-1802
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 …
View book details for Cushions, Kitchens and Christ
Mapping the Domestic in Late Medieval Religious Writing
This book represents the first full-length study of the prevalence of domestic imagery in late medieval religious literature. It examines as yet understudied patterns of household imagery and allegory across four fifteenth-century spiritual texts, all of which are Middle English …
View book details for Horror in Classical Literature
On a Profound and Elementary Principle'
No in- or out-of-print book has the same goals, content, wide range, and scholarly approach as the present study. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, previously published books have neglected ancient Graeco-Roman texts that either cause horror or may be said to …
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The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan Literature
This major reference work is the fourth volume in the series "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages". Its intention is to update the French and Occitan chapters in R.S. Loomis "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History" (Oxford, …
View book details for The Elect Methodists
Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735-1811
The Elect Methodists is the first full-length academic study of Calvinistic Methodism, a movement that emerged in the eighteenth century as an alternative to the better known Wesleyan grouping. While the branch of Methodism led by John Wesley has received …
View book details for Mothers, Wives and Changing Lives
Women in Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Wales
Despite the great changes that the twentieth century brought to the lives and roles of the women of rural Wales, there has been scant attention paid to the topic by social scientists and historians, even within Wales. "Mothers, Wives and …
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The Welsh and Atlantic Slavery, 1660-1850
Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. Welsh commodities, like copper and brass made in Swansea, were …
Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of Spains most original and renowned twentieth-century poets and thinkers. From his early poems in Soledades. Galerias. Otros poemas of 1907, to the writings of his alter-ego Juan de Mairena of the 1930s, Machado endeavoured …
View book details for The Witness and the Body in Auschwitz
Early Literary Accounts of the Camp Experience
The Witness and the Body in Auschwitz: Early Literary Accounts of the Camp Experience examines bodily descriptions from early testimonies of concentration camp survivors focusing on questions related to meanings of corporeality, as well as to Holocaust researchers, and links …
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