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Writing Wales in English

This series delves into the rich literary landscape of Wales as expressed through English-language works. Explore narratives that capture the unique spirit and history of Wales, from its rugged mountains to its coastal edges. Discover the diverse voices and perspectives that have shaped Welsh identity and its place within British literature. Each volume offers profound insights into a distinctive cultural heritage and contemporary literary scene.

The Nations of Wales
Black Skin, Blue Books
All That Is Wales
Cartographies of Culture
In the Shadow of the Pulpit
Liberating Dylan Thomas

Recommended Reading Order

  • Liberating Dylan Thomas

    • 240 pages
    • 9 hours of reading

    Liberating Dylan Thomas demonstrates the ways in which the vital connection between post-Freudian psychoanalysis and Thomas's early poetry can be articulated without reductive simplification.

    Liberating Dylan Thomas
  • Ranging from the nineteenth century to the present, this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture of Wales: the culture of Welsh nonconformity.

    In the Shadow of the Pulpit
  • All That Is Wales

    • 320 pages
    • 12 hours of reading

    A collection of essays on a range of Welsh writers, both well-known and otherwise, by one of the leading specialists in the anglophone literary culture of Wales.

    All That Is Wales
  • This is a ground breaking comparative study of the fascinating connections between African Americans and the Welsh, beginning in the era of slavery and concluding with the experiences of African American GIs in wartime Wales.

    Black Skin, Blue Books
  • This book argues that several competing images of Welshness were put in circulation during the Victorian and Edwardian decades, and proceeds to examine several of the most influential of these as they took the form of literary texts.

    The Nations of Wales