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  • Black Skin, Blue Books

    African Americans and Wales 1845-1945

    by Daniel G. Williams ...
    Series series Writing Wales in English
    Williams analyses and compares the ways in which African Americans and the Welsh have defined themselves as minorities within larger nation states (the UK and US). The study is grounded in examples of actual friendships and cultural exchanges between African Americans and the Welsh, such as Paul Robeson s connections with the socialists of the Welsh mining communities, and novelist Ralph Ellison s ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transatlantic Vistas

    On the Literatures of Wales and the United States

    by M. Wynn Thomas ...
    An edited collection of essays, interviews, and book reviews by M. Wynn Thomas.For more than half a century, M. Wynn Thomas has been Wales’s foremost literary critic. His ground-breaking work – on subjects ranging from Welsh Puritanism to Walt Whitman, from religious Dissent to contemporary poetry – has opened up new vistas and literary correspondences for his readers. Thomas’s writings combine a ... Read more

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  • The Centenary Edition Raymond Williams

    Who Speaks for Wales? Nation, Culture, Identity

    by Raymond Williams ...
    In the words of the philosopher Cornel West, Raymond Williams was ‘the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals’. A figure of international importance in the fields of cultural criticism and social theory, Williams was also preoccupied throughout his life with the meaning and significance of his Welsh identity. Who Speaks for Wales? (2003) was the first collection of ... Read more

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  • The Centenary Edition Raymond Williams

    Who Speaks for Wales?Nation, Culture, Identity

    by Raymond Williams ...
    In the words of the philosopher Cornel West, Raymond Williams was ‘the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals’. A figure of international importance in the fields of cultural criticism and social theory, Williams was also preoccupied throughout his life with the meaning and significance of his Welsh identity. Who Speaks for Wales? (2003) was the first collection of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature

    by Cóilín Parsons ...
    The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature offers a fresh new look at the origins of literary modernism in Ireland, tracing a history of Irish writing through James Clarence Mangan, J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. Beginning with the archives of the Ordnance Survey, which mapped Ireland between 1824 and 1846, the book argues that one of the sources of Irish modernism ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Colonial Consequences

    Essays in Irish Literature and Culture

    by John Wilson Foster ...
    Colonial Consequences contains sixteen essays in Irish literature and culture by Belfast-born, Vancouver-based critic John Wilson Foster. The essays survey texts, genres and cultural backgrounds, from eighteenth-century landscape verse, the origins of Irish modernism, Yeats's great poem 'Easter 1916', to the literature and life-styles of Northern Ireland. They give eloquent, close readings of ... Read more

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  • A History of the Irish Novel

    by Derek Hand ...
    Derek Hand's A History of the Irish Novel is a major work of criticism on some of the greatest and most globally recognisable writers of the novel form. Writers such as Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and John McGahern have demonstrated the extraordinary intellectual range, thematic complexity and stylistic innovation of Irish fiction. Derek Hand provides a remarkably ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry

    Edited by Nigel Alderman, C. D. Blanton ...
    Series series Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
    This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry.An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-centuryIntroduces students to figures including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Andrew MotionTakes an integrative approach, emphasizing the complex ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • The Poetry of Chartism

    Aesthetics, Politics, History

    by Mike Sanders ...
    Series Book 62 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Between 1838 and 1852, the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, published over 1000 poems written by more than 350 poets - as the readership of the Northern Star numbered hundreds of thousands, these poems were amongst the most widely read of the Victorian era. This book offers a complete record of all the poems published. It asks a simple question: why did the writing and reading of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Romantic Crowd

    Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture

    by Mary Fairclough ...
    Series Book 97 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    In the long eighteenth century, sympathy was understood not just as an emotional bond, but also as a physiological force, through which disruption in one part of the body produces instantaneous disruption in another. Building on this theory, Romantic writers explored sympathy as a disruptive social phenomenon, which functioned to spread disorder between individuals and even across nations like a ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    by Emma Griffin ...
    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Language Wars

    A History of Proper English

    by Henry Hitchings ...
    "Chock-full of historical and literary references . . . a fascinating, eye-opening look at the evolution of the English language." ― The Huffington PostThe English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting values—morality, politics, and class.The Language Wars examines the present state of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD