Wales and the Romantic Imagination, edited by Damian Walfrod Davies and
Lynda Pratt
(University of Wales Press, July 2007), pp. xvi, 256; ISBN
978-0-7083-2066-X (Pb)
Wales and the Romantic Imagination is the first collection devoted
exclusively to the figuring of Wales by both native inhabitants and
visitors in Romantic-period writing. Wales was a crucial site for the
Romantic imagination, yet there has been no sustained investigation of the
wide range of responses to its landscape, history and culture.
Examining the work of canonical and non-canonical writers in a variety of
genres, the volume reveals the forms in which Wales resisted, succumbed to
and embraced appropriation. It breaks new ground by countering the critical
marginalisation of Wales in accounts of the formation of British
Romanticism. At a time when a monolithic cultural model is being superseded
by the plural Romanticisms of the 'four nations', the twelve essays in this
book are concerned both to locate 'Romantic Wales' more centrally and to
devolve it. This move involves a sharper awareness of complex cultural
allegiances in an international context, and a more precise understanding
of the relation between Romanticism and national identity, politics, the
imperial project, print culture and gender.
Wales and the Romantic Imagination generates a culturally nuanced map -
vital new textual geographies - of the period's literary activity.
Damian Walford Davies is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Lynda Pratt is Reader in Romanticism in
the School of English at the University of Nottingham.
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