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This is a comprehensive study of the impact of censorship on theatre in twentieth-century Spain. It draws on extensive archival evidence, vivid personal testimonies and in-depth analysis of legislation to document the different kinds of theatre censorship practised during the …
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The Political Thought of Plaid Cymru (Volume 1)
This authoritative book traces the development of Plaid Cymrus political thought from its birth in 19245 to the establishment of the National Assembly for Wales in 1999. Through a penetrating study of the political beliefs of its most important leaders …
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Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles
Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is informed by, the British regional experience. Acknowledging how the so-called United Kingdom has historically been divided on nationalistic lines, the twelve original essays …
Dymar unig ymdriniaeth ddiweddar yn y Gymraeg o rai or cwestiynau cymhleth a heriol a godir i ddiwinyddiaeth Gristnogol gan wyddoniaeth gyfoes: sut y gall diwinyddiaeth Gristnogol ymateb ir ddealltwriaeth lawnach a dyfnach sydd gennym bellach am darddiad, datblygiad a …
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A Modern History
This modern history of Gibraltar updates and enhances scholarship on the Rock's history by bringing together the author's extensive archival research and developments in the secondary literature surrounding British Gibraltar. Central to its narrative is an examination of the development …
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The Arthurian Legend in Celtic Literatures and Traditions
This is the first comprehensive authoritative survey of Arthurian literature and traditions in the Celtic languages of Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Irish and Scottish Gaelic. With contributions by leading and emerging specialists in the field, the volume traces the development of …
View book details for The March of Wales 1067-1300
A Borderland of Medieval Britain
By 1300, a region often referred to as the March of Wales had been created between England and the Principality of Wales. This March consisted of some forty castle-centred lordships extending along the Anglo-Welsh border and also across southern Wales. …
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New Approaches
Monastic Wales - new approaches is an interdisciplinary collection of essays written by some of the leading scholars working on aspects of medieval Welsh history. The chapters in this volume consider the history, archaeology, architecture and wider cultural, social, political …
The Island of Apples is a brilliant study of a pre-adolescent boy's romantic imagination and dangerous enthralment, set vividly in the south Wales of Methyr Tydfil and Carmarthen in the early twentieth century.
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The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature
This first comprehensive treatment of Arthurian literature in the English language up until the end of the Middle Ages is now available for the first time in paperback. English people think of Arthur as their own stamped on the landscape …
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The Early Societies in South-west Wales 1737-1750
The evangelical or Methodist revival had a major impact on Welsh religion, society and culture, leading to the unprecedented growth of Nonconformity by the nineteenth century, which established a very clear difference between Wales and England in religious terms. Since …
Rhys Davies was a seminal influence in Welsh writing because he was one of the first novelists to depict industrial Wales, and was a highly prolific writer producing some twenty novels and one hundred short stories in a career that …
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The Archaeology of Government
Carmarthen Castle was one of the largest castles in medieval Wales. It was also one of the most important, in its role as a centre of government and as a Crown possession in a region dominated by Welsh lands and …
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New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race and Sexuality
Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in Horror fiction from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the various ways that horror and religion have interacted over themes …
View book details for John Ormonds Organic Mosaic
Poetry, Documentary, Nation
In a uniquely dualistic creative career spanning five decades, John Ormond made major contributions to both English-language poetry and documentary filmmaking. Born in Swansea, he learned to think in terms of pictures while working as a journalist in London, where …
Herbert Williams is one of Wales' most celebrated and distinguished writers. A man of many talents, he is a poet, novelist, short story writer and historian. This book provides a critical survey of his life and writing. It is a …
View book details for Minervas Gothics
The Politics and Poetics of Romantic Exchange, 1780-1820
Between 1790 and 1820, William Lanes Minerva Press published an unprecedented number of circulating-library novels by obscure female authors. Because these novels catered to the days fashion for sentimental themes and Gothic romance, they were and continue to be generally …
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Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 17641897
The Gothic has always been fascinated with objects carrying with them a sense of horror the decomposing body, the rigid corpse, the bleeding statue, the spectral skeleton capable of creating a sublime form of beauty. Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and …
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Studies in Cultural Euro-Welshness, 18501980
The Brexit debates confirmed how Waless relationship to Europe has for too long been discussed exclusively, narrowly and suffocatingly in terms of its social, political and economic aspects. As a contrast, this volume sets out to explore the rich, inventive …
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Women Rewriting Contemporary Wales
Poetry, Geography, Gender examines how questions of place, identity and creative practice intersect in the work of some of Wales' best known contemporary poets, including Gillian Clarke, Gwyneth Lewis, Ruth Bidgood and Sheenagh Pugh. Merging traditional literary criticism with cultural-political …
This book is a study of unusual light phenomena, based on almost 400 unpublished accounts of modern-day encounters with strange lights collected over a period of thirty years, held at the University of Wales, Lampeter. It is an original and …
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A Cultural and Political History
In a world increasingly dominated by visual sensation, our understanding of the role and influence of comics and cartoon humor in popular culture has become essential. This book offers a critical and cognitive focus that captures the changing fortunes of …
Posthuman Gothic is an edited collection of thirteen chapters, and offers a structured, dialogical contribution to the discussion of the posthuman Gothic. Contributors explore the various ways in which posthuman thought intersects with Gothic textuality and mediality. The texts and …
Combining postcolonial studies, curating and contemporary art, this book surveys the role played by artistic curatorship and contemporary art museums in the shaping of identities and cultural planning in contemporary Iberia. The books main hypothesis is that contemporary art has …
Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry examines the question of how recent English-language poetry from Wales has responded to the diverse physical environments of Wales. The first volume to offer a sustained assessment of Welsh poetry in English within the context …
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