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