New Territories in Modernism

Anglophone Welsh Writing, 1930-1949

By (author) Laura Wainwright

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Publication date:

15 March 2018

Length of book:

256 pages

Publisher

University of Wales Press

ISBN-13: 9781786832207

Until very recently, Welsh literary Modernism has been critically neglected, both within and outside Wales. This is the first book devoted solely to the study of Welsh literary Modernism, revealing and examining eight key Anglophone Welsh writers. Laura Wainwright demonstrates how their linguistic experimentation constituted an engagement with the unprecedented linguistic, social and cultural changes that were the making of modern Wales, and formed the crucible for the emergence of a distinct Welsh Modernism. This study of Welsh Modernism challenges conventional literary histories and, in more than one sense, takes Modernism and Modernist studies into new territories.