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: 9781786830319
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 13 Mo

Extrait

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Between Wales and England
Writing Wales in nglish
00 Prelims Between 2017_2_15.indd 1 15-Feb-17 9:28:31 AMCREW 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 fgure 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 nglish
Bethan M. Jenkins
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS
2017
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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any
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www.uwp.co.uk
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ISBN 978-1-7868-3029-6 (hardback)
978-1-7868-3030-2 (paperback)
eISBN 978-1-7868-3031-9
The right of Bethan M. Jenkins to be identifed 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 fnancial support of the Welsh
Books Council.
Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Melksham
Typeset in Wales by Eira Fenn Gaunt, Cardiff
Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Melksham
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Yn gyfwynedig i mam, ac er cof am fy nhad
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Contents
Series Editors’ Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Preface xiii
1 Welsh writing in English and the idea of
Britishness1
2 Lewis Morris: the proud, hot Welshman 33
3 Evan Evans: a multiplicity of discouraging
circumstances 72
4 Edward Williams: the Jack daw in borrow’d plumes 104
5 Patronage: supported with insolence, paid with
fattery 139
6 Translation: you must give them names in Welsh 173
Notes 199
Bibliography227
Index243
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Series Editors’ Preface
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
defnes 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
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Acknowledgements
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 frst
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
frst 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, Ffon Mair Jones, Marion
Löffer, Jan Martin, Murray Pittock, Sarah Prescott, Rita Singer,
Heather Williams and Margaret Williams who have each helped me
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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 fner champion. Any errors
remaining after his keen scrutiny are mine alone. Final thanks go to
my parents, Tudor and Susan, who made many sacrifces 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 disqualifed me for making some amendments
that I saw so very requisite . . .
Iolo Morganwg, Poems, Lyric and Pastoral, pp. xi–xii.
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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 fooding 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 l