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View book details for The Arthur of the Welsh
The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature
Little, if anything, is known historically of Arthur, yet for centuries the romances of Arthur and his court dominated the imaginative literature of Europe in many languages. The roots of this vast flowering of the Arthurian legend are to be …
View book details for Exiles, Travellers and Vagabonds
Rethinking Mobility in Francophone Women's Writing
Travel writing, migrant writing, exile writing, expatriate writing, and even the fictional travelling protagonists that emerge in literary works from around the globe, have historically tended to depict mobility as a masculine phenomenon. The presence of such genres in womens …
Iberian Crime Fiction is the first volume in English to provide an extensive overview of crime fiction in Spain and Portugal. While the origins of peninsular crime fiction are traced in Nancy Vosburg's introductory chapter to the volume, the essays …
Born in the village of Llangeinor, near Bridgend in south Wales, Richard Price (172391) was, to his contemporaries, an apostle of liberty, an enemy to tyranny and a great benefactor of the human race. His friend Benjamin Franklin described aspects …
View book details for Freedom Music
Wales, Emancipation and Jazz 1850-1950
This book reclaims for Wales the history and culture of a music that eventually emerged as jazz in the 1920s, its tendrils and roots extending back to slave songs and abolition campaign songs, and Swanseas long-forgotten connection with Cincinnati, Ohio. …
View book details for Fleeing Franco
How Wales Gave Shelter to Refugee Children from the Basque Country During the Spanish Civil War
This book tells the story of the Basque children who came to Wales during the Spanish Civil War. In 1937, with civil war raging in Spain, 3,862 Basque children fled their country. They were packed on an old cruise liner …
The purpose of the book is to give visitors to the medieval castles of Wales a concise but informative description of the main publicly accessible sites in a convenient format. An introductory chapter outlines the development of castle architecture in …
View book details for Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies
Wales, Anglocentrism and English Literature
Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies offers a revelatory re-reading of Edward Thomas. Adapting Pascale Casanova s vision of world literature as a system of competing national traditions, this study analyses Thomas s appropriation of Anglocentric British literary culture at …
For a very long time, Kants Doctrine of Right languished in relative neglect, even among those who wanted to defend a Kantian position in political philosophy. Kants more interesting claims about politics were often said to be located elsewhere. This …
View book details for Labour's Crisis
Plaid Cymru, the Conservatives, and the Decline of the Labour Party in North-West Wales, 1960-74
Many books have focused on the rise of, and success of, the Labour party in Wales, but this one focuses on its decline in an understudied part of Wales.
View book details for Gothic Metaphysics
From Alchemy to the Anthropocene
Gothic Metaphysics is a radical departure from Freudian-centred criticism of Gothic literature. It aims to explore our modern dilemma in the time of the Anthropocene, by bringing to light the role of Gothic since its inception in 1764 in holding …
View book details for Frank Lloyd Wright
The Architecture of Defiance
The story of Frank Lloyd Wrights life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona. Throughout his long career, Wright strongly resisted …
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Heddychwr a Gwladgarwr
In the present era of warring and debate relating to Britain's intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq, this volume highlights how contemporary are the arguments of Henry Richard in the 19th century, and how progressive were his efforts for Wales, for …
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The Origins of his Poetry
A critical study of the much-loved early twentieth century English poet Edward Thomas - the 'poet's poet'. It includes illuminating new readings of his poems, prose and letters. Topics covered include his close relation to nature, the land and landscape.
View book details for Maer Beibl on tu
Ymatebion crefyddol y Cymry yn America i gaethwasiaeth (1838-1868)
Hon ywr astudiaeth gyntaf mewn unrhyw iaith syn archwilio ymatebion crefyddol y Cymry yn yr Unol Daleithiau i gaethwasiaeth yn ystod y cyfnod 183868, sef oes aur y wasg gyfnodol Gymraeg yno. Gan ddefnyddior wasg gyfnodol fel sail, cyflwynir trafodaeth …
View book details for Urban Assimilation in Post-Conquest Wales
Ethnicity, Gender and Economy in Ruthin, 1282-1348
This book uses, principally but not only, a case study of the Denbighshire town of Ruthin to discuss both the significance of Englishness versus Welshness and of gender distinctions in the network of small Anglo-Welsh urban centres which emerged in …
View book details for Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales
Bards and Britons
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 …
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Wales, Israel, Palestine
Wales has a long history of interest in Palestine and Israel, and a close interest in Jews and Zionism. This monograph, the first to explore the subject, asks searching questions about the relationship that Wales has with the Israel-Palestine situation.
View book details for Edward Thomas
The Origins of his Poetry
Edward Thomas: The Origins of his Poetry builds a new theoretical framework for critical work on imaginative composition through an investigation of Edward Thomass composing processes, on material from his letters, his poems and his prose books. It looks at …
View book details for Capitalism and its Discontents
Power and Accumulation in Latin-American Culture
Capitalism and its Discontents presents a series of interpretative essays on a number of key modern and contemporary Latin American novels and films. The overarching theme in the essays is the relation between such textual materials and their regional contexts.
View book details for Nietzsche and Napoleon
The Dionysian Conspiracy
This book argues that Nietzsche's political thought and his own proposed model of governance is Bonapartist in conception: autocratic will in the guise of popular rule. Bonaparte is the model for the Nietzschean commander; not only his virtu, his ethics …
This volume critically examines and elucidates the complex relationship between politics and teleology in Kant's philosophical system. Examining this relationship is of key philosophical importance since Kant develops his political philosophy in the context of a teleological conception of the …
In 1971, Californian congressman Thomas M. Rees told the US House of Representatives that very little has been written of what the Welsh have contributed in all walks of life in the shaping of American history. This book is the …
View book details for Theorising the Contemporary Zombie
Contextual Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Zombies have become an increasingly popular object of research in academic studies and, of course, in popular media. Over the past decade, they have been employed to explain mathematical equations, vortex phenomena in astrophysics, the need for improved laws, issues …
View book details for The Darkening Nation
Race, Neoliberalism and Crisis in Argentina
At the turn of the twenty-first century, Argentina was in the midst of its worst economic crisis in decades, the result of years of drastic neoliberal reforms. This book looks at the way ideas about race and nationhood were conveyed …
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