Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies

Wales, Anglocentricism and English Literature

Author(s) Andrew Webb

Language: English

Genre(s): History

Series: Writing Wales in English

  • July 2013 · 288 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Paperback - 9780708326220
  • · eBook - pdf - 9780708326237
  • · eBook - epub - 9781783162833

This book uses models of 'world literature' to present this 'quintessentially English' writer as a pioneering figure in an Anglophone Welsh literary tradition, a controversial reading that contributes to the present-day reconfiguration of cultural relations between Wales, England, Scotland

"This is an engagingly written, original, and intellectually rigorous book of criticism. Webb writes with such insight because he is alive to the many contexts Edward Thomas maps into, but never lets them overwhelm the singularity of Thomas's voice."--Patrick McGuinness, University of Oxford

Introduction Chapter One World Literary Studies and Britain Chapter Two The Reception of Edward Thomas Chapter Three Welsh Literatures in their Political and Economic Contexts Chapter Four Edward Thomas and the Welsh Cultural Tradition Chapter Five Edward Thomas and English 'as a foreign tongue' Chapter Six Edward Thomas and England's failed locales

Author(s): Andrew Webb

Dr Andrew Webb is Senior Lecturer in Modern English Literature at Bangor University.

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