Cartographies of Culture

Damian Walford Davies

Description

Cartographies of Culture: New Geographies of Welsh Writing in English offers a pioneering new examination of the links between maps and imaginative writing. Concerned to draw literary studies and geography into a fruitful dialogue, the book offers a genuinely interdisciplinary study of literary texts in relation to the spatialities of culture. Taking the anglophone literature of Wales as its main ‘data field’, the book offers a boldly imaginative and stringently theorised analysis of five literary ‘maps’. What emerges is nothing less than a new way of reading literature through, and as, maps.

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Idioma inglés
• Irish
• English
• European
• Welsh
• Scottish
• Wales
• Anglais

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 juin 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783165179
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Cartographies of Culture
Writing Wales in English
CREW series of Critical and Scholarly Studies General Editor: Professor M. Wynn Thomas (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 , and, along with Gillian Clarke and Seamus Heaney, one of CREW s Honorary Associates. Grateful thanks are extended to Richard Dynevor for making this series possible.
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Barbara Prys-Williams, Twentieth-Century Autobiography (978-0-7083-1891-1)
Kirsti Bohata, Postcolonialism Revisited (978-0-7083-1892-8)
Chris Wigginton, Modernism from the Margins (978-0-7083-1927-7)
Linden Peach, Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women s Fiction (978-0-7083-1998-7)
Sarah Prescott, Eighteenth-Century Writing from Wales: Bards and Britons (978-0-7083-2053-2)
Hywel Dix, After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain (978-0-7083-2153-9)
Matthew Jarvis, Welsh Environments in Contemporary Welsh Poetry (978-0-7083-2152-2)
Harri Garrod Roberts, Embodying Identity: Representations of the Body in Welsh Literature (978-0-7083-2169-0)
Diane Green, Emyr Humphreys: A Postcolonial Novelist? (978-0-7083-2217-8) M.Wynn Thomas, In the Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales (978-0-7083-2225-3)
Linden Peach, The Fiction of Emyr Humphreys: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (978-0-7083-2216-1)
Daniel Westover, R. S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography (978-0-7083-2413-4)
Jasmine Donahaye, Whose People? Wales, Israel, Palestine (978-0-7083-2483-7)
Judy Kendall, Edward Thomas: The Origins of His Poetry (978-0-7083-2403-5)
Cartographies of Culture
New Geographies of Welsh Writing in English

Writing Wales in English
DAMIAN WALFORD DAVIES
Damian Walford Davies, 2012 Cover image: Linda Norris, Lichen Drift , Bardsey Island (2009). The Artist
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available form the British Library.
ISBN 978-0-7083-2476-9 e-ISBN 978-1-78316-517-9
The right of Damian Walford Davies to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Acts 1988
For Francesca
C ONTENTS
General Editor s Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Triangulating Welsh Writing in English
1 Mapping Borders: Tintern Abbey and Literary Hydrography
2 Mapping the Miracle: Hopkins and the Psychocartography of Welsh Space
3 Mapping Islandness: Brenda Chamberlain s Celtic Archipelagos
4 Mapping Moatedness: Brenda Chamberlain s European Archipelagos
5 Mapping Partition: Waldo Williams, In Two Fields , and the 38th Parallel
Conclusion: The Digital Literary Atlas of Wales
Notes
Bibliography
G ENERAL E DITOR S P REFACE
The aim of this series is to produce a body of scholarly and critical work that reflects the richness and variety of the English-language literature of modern Wales. Drawing upon the expertise both of established specialists and of younger scholars, it will seek to take advantage of the concepts, models and discourses current in the best contemporary studies to promote a better understanding of the literature s significance, viewed not only as an expression of Welsh culture but also as an instance of modern literatures in English worldwide. In addition, it will seek to make available the scholarly materials (such as bibliographies) necessary for this kind of advanced, informed study.
M. Wynn Thomas CREW ( Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales ) Swansea University
A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
For advice and assistance, I am grateful to the following: Robert Barber, Vernon Beynon, Hugo Brunner, Christine Evans, Jasmine Donahaye, Tim Fulford, Jeffrey Grey, John Harvey, Robert Holland, Matthew Jarvis, Reuven Jasser, Alan Vaughan Jones, Richard Marggraf Turley, Suzanne Matheson, Alan McPherson, Kevin Mills, Jill Piercy, M. Wynn Thomas, Charles Travis, Huw Williams and Rowan Williams.
A version of chapter 1 was published in Nicholas Roe (ed.), English Romantic Writers and the West Country (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010). A version of chapter 5 was published in T. Robin Chapman (ed.), The Idiom of Dissent: Protest and Propaganda in Wales (Llandysul: Gomer, 2006).
I LLUSTRATIONS
Introduction
1 Ordnance Survey leaflet, 1930s, with artwork by Ellis Martin
2 The trig points of the present study
Chapter 1
1 Borderland - detail from Nathaniel Coltman s county map in William Coxe s An Historical Tour in Monmouthshire, Illustrated with Views by Sir R. C. Hoare (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1801)
2 Amelia de Suffren, From Piercefield Walks [the junction of the Wye and Severn]; aquatint, May 1802
3 River Severn Old Passage, Surveyed by Captain Beechey; J. C. Walker sculpt. (London: Hydrographic Office, 1846)
4 Detail of the 1830 Ordnance Survey ( Old Series ) map of Avonmouth
5 Charting the composition of Tintern Abbey , 11-13 July 1798, against Thomas Kitchin s Map of the Rivers Severn and Wye (London: R. Baldwin, 1782)
Chapter 2
1 A map illustrating Hopkins s comparison of the Clwyd Valley and the Sea of Galilee , in Christopher Devlin, SJ (ed.), The Sermons and Devotional Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins (London: Oxford University Press, 1959)
2 Galilee in Wales: Hopkins s delineation of the Sea of Galilee, superimposed on the one-inch First Edition or Old Series Ordnance Survey map of Denbighshire and Flintshire, whose sheets were published between 1839 and
3 The area around St Beuno s, from the six-inch First Edition Ordnance Survey map, published in
4 The area around St Beuno s, from the twenty-five-inch First Edition Ordnance Survey map, published in
5 Map of the Sea of Galilee and surroundings by the Palestine Exploration Fund, reprinted in E. H. Plumptre (ed.), The Bible Educator (London: Cassell, Petter Galpin, 1877)
6 Gwlad Canaan; Ar Gynllun Gogledd a Deheudir Cymru i Blant ( The Land of Canaan; On a Plan of North and South Wales for Children ), by Ap Dewi . Published by the Sunday School Union of Great Britain in
Chapter 3
1 From Aran to L ros - the axis of Brenda Chamberlain s European archipelagos
2 Lewis Morris, The North Entrance of Bardsey Sound and the Roads in Caernarvonshire , from Plans of Harbours, Bars, Bays and Roads in St. George s Channel (1748)
3 Lewis Morris, Aberdaron Road, the South East Side of Bardsey Sound, in Caernarvon Shire , from Plans of Harbours, Bars, Bays and Roads in St. George s Channel (1748)
4 Hugh Hughes, Dame Venodotia, alias Modryb Gwen: A Lady Incog . (first engraved c .1835)
5 (i and ii) Brenda Chamberlain MSS, NLW MS 21486C: the beginning of an early draft of Tide-race , opposite a map of Bardsey, traced by Chamberlain
6 Title-page of part one of Tide-race , The cave of seals
7 Tide-race , p.
8 Tide-race , p.
9 Tide-race , p.
10 Tide-race , p.
11 Tide-race , pp. 50-1
12 Tide-race , p.
13 Tide-race , p.
Chapter 4
1 Pen drawing of the Obernburg (Gut Oberbehme, near L hne, north Rhine-Westphalia); The Water-castle , p. 9 129
2 Germany: Zones of Occupation, 1946 , from Earl F. Ziemke, The U.S. Army in the Occupation of Germany, 1944-1946 (Washington DC: U.S. Army Centre of Military History, 1990
3 The Water-castle , p. 115
4 Brenda Chamberlain s Aegean archipelagos: Greece, National Geographic Magazine map, 1958
5 A Rope of Vines , pp. 96-7
6 A Rope of Vines , p. 41
7 A Rope of Vines , p. 90
8 Poems with Drawings , pp. 6-7
9 Poems with Drawings , pp. 20-1
10 Poems with Drawings , p. 25
Chapter 5
1 Asia and Adjacent Areas : detail of the 1942 National Geographic map used by Colonels Bonesteel and Rusk in August 1945 as part of General Order Number 1, formulated by the US Military s Joint Chiefs of Staff
2 The Korean Theater , from James A. Field, Jr., History of United States naval operations: Korea
3 Detail of the Ordnance Survey six-inch county series, 1905-6, showing the two fields, Weun Parc y Blawd and Parc y Blawd, south-east of Llandysilio
4 Detail of the Popular Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1922-3, showing the Pembrokeshire-Carmarthenshire county boundary as Waldo Williams knew it
5 Ceding ground: Boundary Commission for Wales map of the area transferred from Carmarthenshire to Pembrokeshire in 2002
6 The Isolation of Wales , from William Rees, An Historical Atlas of Wales: From Early to Modern Times (London: Faber and Faber, 1951)
Conclusion
1 Digital Literary Atlas of Ireland, 1922-1949
Colour section
1 Iwan Bala, Byd Bach y Byd (2005)
2 Iwan Bala, Ewropa (2005)
3 Iwan Bala, Hon I (2004)
4 Iwan Bala, Adlewyrchu Ynys (2001)
5 XTide (version 2.10) open source tidal prediction (centred on Avonmouth) for 10-13 July 1798 6 and 7 Brenda Chamberlain, Winter Rhythms in Island Life , Joan
6 and 7 Rhys Collection; Size B, Box 2; Picture Store 3; 0200303834/ 1 and 2 8
8 John Piper, Snowdonia, North Wales (1945-9), watercolour on paper 9
9 John Piper, In Llanberis Pass (1945-6), watercolour, pen and chalk
Introduction: Triangulating Welsh Writing in English

THIS IS A MAP
Cartography and map , Wystan Curnow re