Between Wales and England

Bethan Jenkins

Description

Between Wales and England is an exploration of eighteenth-century anglophone Welsh writing by authors for whom English-language literature was mostly a secondary concern. In its process, the work interrogates these authors’ views on the newly-emerging sense of ‘Britishness’, finding them in many cases to be more nuanced and less resistant than has generally been considered. It looks primarily at the English-language works of Lewis Morris, Evan Evans, and Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) in the context of both their Welsh- and English-language influences and time spent travelling between the two countries, considering how these authors responded to and reimagined the new national identity through their poetry and prose.

Sujets

• 18th Century
• Modern
• Histoire
• Idioma galés
• Inglaterra
• Between
• Anglophone
• Writing
• Century
• Monde anglo-saxon
• Welsh
• History
• Wales
• England

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 01 mars 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786830326
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

B ETWEEN W ALES AND E NGLAND
WRITING WALES IN ENGLISH
CREW series of Critical and Scholarly Studies
General Editors: Kirsti Bohata and Daniel G. Williams ( CREW , Swansea University)
This CREW series is dedicated to Emyr Humphreys, a major figure in the literary culture of modern Wales, a founding patron of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales . Grateful thanks are due to the late Richard Dynevor for making this series possible.
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Between Wales and England
Anglophone Welsh Writing of the Eighteenth Century
WRITING WALES IN ENGLISH
Bethan M. Jenkins -->

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2017
© Bethan M. Jenkins, 2017
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978-1-7868-3029-6 (hardback)
ISBN: 978-1-7868-3030-2 (paperback)
eISBN: 978-1-7868-3032-6
The right of Bethan M. Jenkins to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
The publisher acknowledges the financial support of the Welsh Books Council.
Cover image The Bard (1774), Thomas Jones © National Museum Wales
Yn gyflwynedig i mam, ac er cof am fy nhad
C ONTENTS
Series Editors Preface
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Welsh writing in English and the idea of Britishness
2 Lewis Morris: the proud, hot Welshman
3 Evan Evans: a multiplicity of discouraging circumstances
4 Edward Williams: the Jack daw in borrow d plumes
5 Patronage: supported with insolence, paid with flattery
6 Translation: you must give them names in Welsh
Notes
Bibliography
S ERIES E DITORS P REFACE
The aim of this series, since its founding in 2004 by Professor M. Wynn Thomas, is to publish scholarly and critical work by established specialists and younger scholars that refects the richness and variety of the English-language literature of modern Wales. The studies published so far have amply demonstrated that concepts, models and discourses current in the best contemporary studies can illuminate aspects of Welsh culture, and have also foregrounded the potential of the Welsh example to draw attention to themes that are often neglected or marginalised in anglophone cultural studies. The series defines and explores that which distinguishes Wales s anglophone literature, challenges critics to develop methods and approaches adequate to the task of interpreting Welsh culture, and invites its readers to locate the process of writing Wales in English within comparative and transnational contexts.
Kirsti Bohata and Daniel G. Williams
Founding Editor: M. Wynn Thomas (2004-15)
CREW ( Centre for Research into the English
Literature and Language of Wales )
Swansea University
A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book has lived with me in various shapes and forms since I was a Masters student. During that course, and subsequently my doctoral studies, I was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the foundations of this work grew out of the research I was able to undertake with its support. I am supremely grateful to my first supervisor, Nicolas Jacobs, who introduced me to the works of J. R. Jones and the concepts of Prydeindod ; and following his retirement, to my second supervisor, Freya Johnston, for her guidance in bringing my thesis to completion. Thanks must also go to my colleagues at the Bodleian History Faculty Library and the Radcliffe Camera of the Bodleian Library for employment, and encouragement with my on going studies - there are, after so many years, too many of you to mention, but know that you all have my thanks. Many segments of this book first saw the light of day at the conferences held by the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Association for Welsh Writing in English, and the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. I am grateful in particular to the latter institution for the opportunity to work on the projects Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic Tradition in Wales and Wales and the French Revolution , both enjoyable and stimulating experiences. The list of those who have with kindness and generosity given encouragement in various ways to my studies is long, and I would like to thank Jane Aaron, Dinah Birch, Cathryn Charnell-White, Mary-Ann Constantine, Geraint H. Jenkins, Dafydd Johnston, David Ceri Jones, Ffion Mair Jones, Marion Löffer, Jan Martin, Murray Pittock, Sarah Prescott, Rita Singer, Heather Williams and Margaret Williams who have each helped me along my way. Particular thanks must go to Gesine Bruss, Mary Chadwick, Lyn Jones and Milo Thurston, all of whom have borne more than their fair share of my fretting over this volume; like wise Llion Wigley of the University of Wales Press, who has shown great patience with me over the last few years, and Leah Jenkins for imposing order on my chaos. I am grateful to the general editors for allowing me a place in this series, and I am especially grateful to M. Wynn Thomas for his encouragement and his generous, meticulous and careful editorship; Welsh studies has no finer champion. Any errors remaining after his keen scrutiny are mine alone. Final thanks go to my parents, Tudor and Susan, who made many sacrifices to give me two languages and a love of my country; it is to them that this book is dedicated.
My little publication appears after a pretty long delay. Some obstacles occurred from the nature of my situation in life... I was also conscious of the numerous defects and crudities of my pieces, which made me frequently linger over them before I would put them to the press, whilst a dejection thus occasioned disqualified me for making some amendments that I saw so very requisite...
Iolo Morganwg, Poems, Lyric and Pastoral , pp. xi-xii.
P REFACE
The Scottish independence referendum of 2014 and the European Union referendum of 2016 have once more put questions of national, regional and personal identity at the forefront of people s minds, inescapable on the front pages of the newspapers and flooding social media. Yet again, Britain was, is, and ever shall be in crisis, each element within the union jockeying for position as opportunities to renegotiate a constitution present themselves. For a union that so smoothly and swiftly adopted the rhetoric of ancient immutability, continuity and perpetuity, however, the United Kingdom seems rarely to have been out of crisis, lurching precariously from one calamity to the next like Dr Frankenstein s stitched-together monster. So perhaps it is timely to look back to its beginnings in the eighteenth century, and to explore the relations between Wales and England, Welsh and English so as to better understand how these nations and identities intersect with Britishness , at the beginning of this new/ old, stable/unstable alliance - hi hen, eleni y i ganed [she is old, born this year].
This will not be a work concerned primarily, or indeed at all, with Scotland, though comparative work on Wales and her northern cousin is indeed sorely needed. 1 It may even with propriety be asked, what use is another work on Wales and her clichéd English Other in an already fairly crowded field? The contradictory nature of the Welsh relationship with England is one part of the answer; another, the state s increased co-opting dur