"Footsteps of liberty and revolt" : essays on Wales and the French Revolution / / edited by Mary-Ann Constantine and Dafydd Johnston
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"Footsteps of liberty and revolt" : essays on Wales and the French Revolution / / edited by Mary-Ann Constantine and Dafydd Johnston
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| Pubblicazione: | Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2013 |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 940.27 |
| Soggetto geografico: | Wales History 1536-1700 |
| Wales History | |
| Wales History 1284-1536 | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | ConstantineMary-Ann |
| JohnstonDafydd | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Writing the Revolution in Wales; Wales as Nowhere: the tabula rasa of the 'Jacobin' imagination; Rousseau and Wales; 'Our first concern as lovers of our country must be to enlighten it':Richard Price's response to the French Revolution; The Welsh in Revolutionary Paris; The 'Marseillaise' in Wales; The 'Rural Voltaire' and the 'French madcaps'; Networking the nation: the bardic and correspondence networks of Wales and London in the 1790's |
| Radical adaptation: translations of medieval Welsh poetry in the 1790's 'Brave Republicans': representing the Revolution in a Welsh interlude; 'A good Cambrio-Briton': Hester Thrale Piozzi, Helen Maria Williams and the Welsh sublime in the 1790's; What is a national Gothic?; Terror, treason and tourism: the French in Pembrokeshire 1797; The voices of war: poetry from Wales 1794-1804; The Revd William Howels (1778-1832) of Cowbridge and London: the making of an anti-radical; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A collection of essays exploring the impact on Welsh culture of one of the most exciting periods in history, the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | "Footsteps of liberty and revolt" |
| ISBN: | 0-7083-2591-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786391903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Wales and the French Revolution.