University Of Wales Press: 420 books
The Welsh and the Medieval World
Travel, Migration and Exile
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
How did the Welsh travel beyond their geographical borders in the Middle Ages? What did they do, what did they take with them in their baggage, and what did they bring back? This book seeks for the first time to capture the medieval Welsh on the move, and core to its purpose is the exploration of...
R. S. Thomas
A Stylistic Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) is the most recognizable literary figure in twentieth-century Wales. His controversial politics and public personality made him a cultural icon during his life, and the merits of his poetry have continued to be debated in the years after his death. Yet these debates have too-often...
by John Graham Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
This is an engaging, best-selling volume reproduced with text panels that provide brief biographies of historical figures and descriptions of major historical sites in Wales. As the only concise history of Wales currently available in print, this book is an ideal introductory study for the general...
by John S. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Around the turn of the century, Welsh readers thrilled to the heroic stories of Owen Rhoscomyl. Having been a cowboy, frontiersman, soldier and mercenary, Rhoscomyl was as adventurous and exotic as his stories. Roving the wilds of the American West, Patagonia and South Africa before finally settling...
Bard of Liberty
The Political Radicalism of Iolo Morganwg
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
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...
Cartographies of Culture
New Geographies of Welsh Writing in English
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Cartographies of Culture: New Geographies of Welsh Writing in English offers a pioneering new examination of the links between maps and imaginative writing. Concerned to draw literary studies and geography into a fruitful dialogue, the book offers a genuinely interdisciplinary study of literary texts...
Gothic Britain
Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
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 in this volume interrogate the...
Mapping the Medieval City
Space, Place and Identity in Chester c.1200-1600
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
This ground-breaking volume brings together contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines (including literary studies, history, geography and archaeology) to investigate questions of space, place and identity in the medieval city. Using Chester as a case study – with attention to its...
J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History
Renewing a Nation's Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
This is the first intellectual biography of John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947), widely regarded as the founder of the modern academic study of Welsh history. Indeed, the compliment that pleased him most was that he had ‘created Welsh history’. Published to mark the centenary of Lloyd’s most important...
Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies
Wales, Anglocentrism and English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
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 key moments...
Religion, Loyalty and Sedition
The Hanoverian Succession of 1714
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
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. However, 1714 was in some respects as significant...
War and Society in Medieval Wales 633-1283
Welsh Military Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The story of Wales from the end of the Roman period to the conquest by Edward I in 1283 is unknown to most, but recent historiography has opened up the source material and allowed for a modern, critical reappraisal. The development of the country is traced within the context of the rest of post-Roman...
by John Sears
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Explores the works of Stephen King, one of the world’s best-selling horror writers, through the lenses offered by contemporary literary and cultural theory. This title argues that King’s writing explores many of the issues analysed by critics and philosophers.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
A significant collection of essays by leading scholars on the vital decade of the 1670s in Britain, Ireland and North America. This was a period of profound tension and uncertainty (culminating in the exclusion crisis of 1678-83),, in which the 1660s restoration settlement began to break down, and...