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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9781783164776 ● File size 84.0 MB ● Publisher University of Wales Press ● Published 2009 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4773726 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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