Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales

Nation, Gender, Identity

Author(s) Jane Aaron

Language: English

Genre(s): Literary Studies, Wales Studies, Gender Studies

Series: Gender Studies in Wales

  • February 2010 · 256 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Paperback - 9780708320600
  • · Paperback - 9780708322772
  • · eBook - pdf - 9780708322871
  • · eBook - epub - 9781783163953

Argues that the way in which people came to perceive and to represent themselves as Welsh was profoundly affected by the gender ideologies prevalent during the Romantic and Victorian periods. This title introduces readers to a hundred Welsh women authors at work during the years 1780-1900, some writing in Welsh and some in English.

Author(s): Jane Aaron

Emeritus Professor at the University of South Wales, Jane Aaron is the author of six monographs on nineteenth-century literature, including Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing in Wales (2007) and Welsh Gothic (2013).

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