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Gothic Literary Studies: Welsh Gothic by Jane Aaron (2014, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherGwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
ISBN-100708326080
ISBN-139780708326084
eBay Product ID (ePID)172357009
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameWelsh Gothic
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGothic & Romance, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
AuthorJane Aaron
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
SeriesGothic Literary Studies
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.1 in
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsThis is an exhilarating study that confirms Professor Aaron's reputation for groundbreaking publications. She here demonstrates how the gothic imagination materializes at all the key points in the historical development of modern Wales, repeatedly furnishing a threatened culture with a dark grammar for its deepest anxieties. And, in the process, she succeeds in finding a significant place for Wales for the first time in the haunted international landscape of gothic writing., Groundbreaking. . . . A necessity for any thorough study of the Gothic literature of the British Isles., This is an exhilarating study that confirms Jane Aaron's reputation for groundbreaking publications. She demonstrates how the gothic imagination materializes at all the key points in the historical development of modern Wales, repeatedly furnishing a threatened culture with a dark grammar for its deepest anxieties. And, in the process, she succeeds in finding a significant place for Wales for the first time in the haunted international landscape of gothic writing., Jane Aaron's magisterial monograph brings to light just how thoroughly Wales was gothicized, from Mary Robinson to Arthur Machen, Caradoc Evans to Gwyn Thomas, and through to Ruth Bidgood. Arguing that the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century medievalism (which mythologized Celtic origins of Welsh nationalism) also haunted Welsh writing at least until 1997, she skillfully exorcises specters of decline and dissolution that are definitely Welsh--the scapegoat, the sin-eater, whole families cursed by disease and capitalist exploitation, and individuals doomed to guilt and self-loathing by inward-looking communities. This comprehensive and bold work of scholarship will change the way we think about both the history of gothic and Welsh writing in English., Welsh Gothic , the first study of its kind, introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day. Informed by postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, it argues that many of the fears encoded in Welsh Gothic writing are specific to the history of Welsh people, telling us much about the changing ways in which Welsh people have historically seen themselves and been perceived by others. The first part of the book explores Welsh Gothic writing from its beginnings in the last decades of the eighteenth century to 1997. The second part focuses on figures specific to the Welsh Gothic genre who enter literature from folk lore and local superstition, such as the sin-eater, cwn Annwn (hellhounds), dark druids and Welsh witches., "Jane Aaron's magisterial monograph brings to light just how thoroughly Wales was gothicized, from Mary Robinson to Arthur Machen, Caradoc Evans to Gwyn Thomas, and through to Ruth Bidgood. Arguing that the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century medievalism (which mythologized Celtic origins of Welsh nationalism) also haunted Welsh writing at least until 1997, she skillfully exorcises specters of decline and dissolution that are definitely Welsh--the scapegoat, the sin-eater, whole families cursed by disease and capitalist exploitation, and individuals doomed to guilt and self-loathing by inward-looking communities. This comprehensive and bold work of scholarship will change the way we think about both the history of gothic and Welsh writing in English."
Dewey Decimal823.0872909009429
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Prologue: 'A Long Terror' Part I: Haunted by History 1. Cambria Gothica (1780s-1820s) 2. An Underworld of One's Own (1830s-1900s) 3. Haunted Communities (1900s-1940s) 4. Land of the Living Dead (1940s-1997) Part II: 'Things That Go Bump in the Celtic Twilight' 5. Witches, Druids and the Hounds of Annwn 6. The Sin-eater Epilogue: Post-devolution Gothic Notes Select Bibliography Index
SynopsisWelsh Gothic, the first study of its kind, introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day. Informed by postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, it argues that many of the fears encoded in Welsh Gothic writing are specific to the history of Welsh people, telling us much about the changing ways in which Welsh people have historically seen themselves and been perceived by others. The first part of the book explores Welsh Gothic writing from its beginnings in the last decades of the eighteenth century to 1997. The second part focuses on figures specific to the Welsh Gothic genre who enter literature from folk lore and local superstition, such as the sin-eater, cwn Annwn (hellhounds), dark druids and Welsh witches., Drawing upon both Welsh- and English-language materials, Welsh Gothic explores the diverse ways in which Wales has been represented in Gothic literature from the late eighteenth century to the present day., Welsh Gothic introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day. Calling on postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, Jane Aaron argues that many of the fears encoded in Welsh Gothic writing are specific to the history of the Welsh and reveal much about the varying ways in which the Welsh people have been perceived and have viewed themselves throughout history. The first part of the book explores Welsh Gothic writing from its beginnings in the last decades of the eighteenth century to 1997. The second part focuses on the figures specific to the Welsh Gothic genre who have entered literature from folklore and local superstition, such as the sin-eater, hellhounds, dark druids, and Welsh witches.
LC Classification NumberPN3435A19 2013
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