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Welsh Gothic

By Jane Aaron

Book information

Publisher
University of Wales Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780708326091, 0708326099, 9781783165599, 1783165596
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2429707 bytes)
Series
Gothic Literary Studies
Pages
0\272
Time added
2019-05-24 22:23:54
English -- Wales -- History and criticism;EnglishEnglish;WalesGothic fiction (Literary genre)IrishScottishWelsh;LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gothic & Romance;Engli

Description

Annotation Welsh Gothic introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day. Calling on postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, Jane Aaron argues that many of the fears encoded in Welsh Gothic writing are specific to the history of Welsh and reveal much about the varying ways in which the Welsh people have been perceived and viewed themselves throughout history. The first part of the book explores Welsh Gothic writing from its beginnings in the last decades of the eighteenth century to 1997. The second part focuses on the figures specific to the Welsh Gothic genre who have entered literature from folklore and local superstition, such as the sin-eater, hellhounds, dark druids, and Welsh witches.  Read more... pt. I. Haunted by history -- pt. II. "Things that go bump in the Celtic twilight."

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