A Guide to Welsh literature c.1800‐1900

This fifth volume of a splendid series outlining the history and development of Welsh literature from its beginnings in the sixth century to the present is as attractive, informative and engrossing as its predecessors. Its authority is enhanced by the stature of its editor, Hywel Teifi Edwards, Research Professor in Welsh at University of Wales Swansea, and a leading commentator on nineteenth‐century Welsh literature and culture. Professor Edwards envisages a sustained period of “liberal reclamation” of “a significant body of literature written in the teeth of demoralising circumstances as Wales was transfigured by social, economic and cultural changes of seismic...