Claiming Cambria : invoking the Welsh in the romantic era

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Label

Claiming Cambria : invoking the Welsh in the romantic era

Title remainder

invoking the Welsh in the romantic era

Statement of responsibility

Shawna Lichtenwalner

Creator

• Lichtenwalner, Shawna, 1971-

Subject

• English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• English poetry -- Welsh authors | History and criticism
• History
• Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• Literature and history -- Wales -- History -- 18th century
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Romanticism -- Great Britain
• Romanticism -- Wales
• Wales -- In literature
• National characteristics, Welsh, in literature

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"This book examines the role of history in the construction of communal, culturally based identities. Working with the dynamic period of the Romantic era, the author traces variant attitudes toward history that enabled writers to cast Wales and the Welsh into specific cultural roles. During this time, when the validity of maintaining that the Welsh had a right to retain their identity as a culturally distinct people was seriously questioned, literary invocations of the past played an important role in articulating the relationship between Wales and Great Britain. By investigating Romantic-era negotiations of Welsh culture both by writers seeking to further the assimilation of the Welsh, and by those seeking to protect and preserve a distinctive cultural identity for the Welsh, this book traces the effects of differing historiographic approaches to identity formation, allowing for a better understanding of how cultural material can be productively reworked in order to gain a specific end."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

821/.7099429

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR8960

LC item number

.L53 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography