Welsh Gothic, the first study of its kind, introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day. Informed by postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, it argues that many of the fears encoded in Welsh Gothic writing are specific to the history of Welsh people, telling us much about the changing ways in which Welsh people have historically seen themselves and been perceived by others. 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 figures specific to the Welsh Gothic genre who enter literature from folk lore and local superstition, such as the sin-eater, cwn Annwn (hellhounds), dark druids and Welsh witches.
Contents
Prologue: 'A Long Terror'
PART I: HAUNTED BY HISTORY
1. Cambria Gothica (1780s-1820s)
2. An Underworld of One's Own (1830s-1900s).
3. Haunted Communities (1900s-1940s).
4. Land of the Living Dead (1940s-1997).
PART II: 'THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE CELTIC TWILIGHT'
5. Witches, Druids and the Hounds of Annwn.
6. The Sin-eater
Epilogue: Post-devolution Gothic
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
| ISBN: | 9780708326084 |
| Publication date: | 15th May 2013 |
| Author: | Jane Aaron |
| Publisher: | University of Wales Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | Gothic Literary Studies |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literature: history and criticism |
Welsh Gothic, the first study of its kind, introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day. Informed by postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, it argues that many of the fears encoded in Welsh Gothic writing are specific to the history of Welsh people, telling us much about the changing ways in which Welsh people have historically seen themselves and been perceived by others. 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 figures specific to the Welsh Gothic genre who enter literature from folk lore and local superstition, such as the sin-eater, cwn Annwn (hellhounds), dark druids and Welsh witches.
Contents
Prologue: 'A Long Terror'
PART I: HAUNTED BY HISTORY
1. Cambria Gothica (1780s-1820s)
2. An Underworld of One's Own (1830s-1900s).
3. Haunted Communities (1900s-1940s).
4. Land of the Living Dead (1940s-1997).
PART II: 'THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE CELTIC TWILIGHT'
5. Witches, Druids and the Hounds of Annwn.
6. The Sin-eater
Epilogue: Post-devolution Gothic
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Welsh Gothic features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600
Welsh Gothic is available in Paperback, Ebook
Welsh Gothic was written by Jane Aaron and published by University of Wales Press
Welsh Gothic has 288 pages
Yes it is part of Gothic Literary Studies series