LEADER 02600nam 2200421z- 450 001 9910831847403321 005 20210210 035 $a(CKB)5470000000566243 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38285 035 $a(oapen)doab38285 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000000566243 100 $a20202102d2019 |y e 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aChapter 7 Welsh Women's Industrial Fiction 1880-1910 210 $cTaylor & Francis$d2019 215 $a1 online resource (18 p.) 225 1 $aHistorical Women's Writing 311 08$a0-429-33086-3 330 $aFrom the beginning of the genre, women writers have made a major contribution to the development of industrial writing. Although prevented from gaining first-hand experience of the coalface, Welsh women writers were amongst the first to try to fictionalize those heavy industries-coal and metal in the south, and slate in the north-which dominated the lives of the majority of the late nineteenth-century Welsh population. Treatment of industrial matter is generally fragmentary in this early women's writing; industrial imagery and metaphor may be used in novels that are not primarily "about" industry at all. Yet from c. 1880-1910, Welsh women writers made a significant-and hitherto critically neglected-attempt to make sense in literature of contemporary industrial Wales in powerful and innovative ways. This essay maps their contribution and considers anglophone Welsh women writers' adaptations and innovations of form (particularly romance) as they try to find a way of representing industrial landscapes, communities and the daily realities of industrial labour. It identifies the genesis in women's writing of tropes that would become central to later industrial fiction, including depictions of industrial accident, injury, death and disability. And it explores the representation of social relations (class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality) and conflict on this tumultuous, dangerous new stage. 606 $aLiterature & literary studies$2bicssc 610 $a1914 610 $aAaron 610 $abefore 610 $aJane 610 $aWales 610 $aWomen's 610 $aWriting 615 7$aLiterature & literary studies 700 $aBohata$b Kirsti$4auth$0905392 702 $aJones$b Alexandra$4auth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910831847403321 996 $aChapter 7 Welsh Women's Industrial Fiction 1880-1910$94417073 997 $aUNINA