| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
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Wales and the French Revolution |
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Wales and the French Revolution.
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| Contents |
List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Writing the Revolution in Wales; Wales as Nowhere: the tabula rasa of the 'Jacobin' imagination; Rousseau and Wales; 'Our first concern as lovers of our country must be to enlighten it':Richard Price's response to the French Revolution; The Welsh in Revolutionary Paris; The 'Marseillaise' in Wales; The 'Rural Voltaire' and the 'French madcaps'; Networking the nation: the bardic and correspondence networks of Wales and London in the 1790s |
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Radical adaptation: translations of medieval Welsh poetry in the 1790s'Brave Republicans': representing the Revolution in a Welsh interlude; 'A good Cambrio-Briton': Hester Thrale Piozzi, Helen Maria Williams and the Welsh sublime in the 1790s; What is a national Gothic?; Terror, treason and tourism: the French in Pembrokeshire 1797; The voices of war: poetry from Wales 1794-1804; The Revd William Howels (1778-1832) of Cowbridge and London: the making of an anti-radical; Index |
| Summary |
A collection of essays exploring the impact on Welsh culture of one of the most exciting periods in history, the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
British & Irish history.
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Social & cultural history.
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Wales.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Regions & Countries - Europe.
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History & Archaeology.
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Great Britain.
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| SUBJECT |
Wales -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92005316
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France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051319
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| Subject |
France
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Wales
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Constantine, Mary-Ann, editor.
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Johnston, Dafydd, 1955- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780708325919 |
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0708325912 |
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0708325904 |
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9780708325902 |
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9781783160433 |
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1783160438 |
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