In the Shadow of the Pulpit
Literature and Nonconformist Wales
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2009
320 pages
978-1-78316-477-6 (ISBN)
Description
Writer versus preacher: this book shows how this struggle has lain at the heart of Welsh writing and culture for the past two hundred years, intimately shaping the English language literature produced by Wales. Starting with a simple explanation of the history and character of Welsh Nonconformity, it traces the growing textual response to Nonconformity's hegemonic cultural power from the eighteenth century onwards, culminating in twentieth-century writers' attempts to undermine it by wresting words from the control of the pulpit. It also uncovers a whole new body of nineteenth-century fiction from Wales, and re-defines Dylan Thomas's debt to his Nonconformist ancestors.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Not illustrated
File size
82,08 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78316-477-6 (9781783164776)
DOI
10.1234/b10412
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10/2009
University of Wales Press
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Person
M. Wynn Thomas is Professor of English and Emyr Humphreys Professor of English at Swansea University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Learned Society of Wales, and the author of twenty books on the two literatures of Wales and on American poetry.
