Welsh Gothic by Jane Aaron

Welsh Gothic by Jane Aaron

Drawing upon both Welsh- and English-language materials, Welsh Gothic explores the diverse ways in which Wales has been represented in Gothic literature from the late eighteenth century to the present day.

Jane Aaron's magisterial monograph brings to light just how thoroughly Wales was Gothicised from Mary Robinson to Arthur Machen, Caradoc Evans to Gwyn Thomas and through to Ruth BidgoodArguing that the eighteenth and nineteenth-century medievalism (which mythologised Celtic origins of Welsh nationalism) also haunted Welsh writing at least until 1997, she skilfully exorcises spectres of decline and dissolution which are definitively Welsh - the scapegoat, the sin-eater, whole families cursed by disease and capitalist exploitation, and individuals doomed to guilt and self-loathing by inward-looking communities. This comprehensive and bold work of scholarship will change the way we think about both the history of Gothic and Welsh Writing in English. Professor Caroline Franklin, Director at the Centre for Research into Gender, Culture and Society This is an exhilarating study, which confirms Professor Aaron's reputation for groundbreaking publications. She here demonstrates how the Gothic imagination materialises at all the key points in the historical development of modern Wales, repeatedly furnishing a threatened culture with a dark grammar for its deepest anxieties. And, in the process, she succeeds in finding a significant place for Wales for the first time in the haunted international landscape of Gothic writing. Professor M. Wynn Thomas, CREW, Swansea University

Jane Aaron is Professor of English at the University of South Wales. She is the author of Pur fel y Dur - Y Gymraes yn Llen Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg (University of Wales Press, 1998) and edited Our Sisters' Land (reprinted 2004) and Postcolonial Wales (2005). Her most recent book is Welsh Gothic (University of Wales Press, 2013).

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ISBN 13	9780708326084
ISBN 10	0708326080
Title	Welsh Gothic
Author	Jane Aaron
Series	Gothic Literary Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Wales Press
Year published	2013-05-15
Number of pages	288
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