University Of Wales Press imprint: 340 books
Republicanism and the American Gothic
American Gothic
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
This book defines the American Gothic and places it both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history in the last 300 years, and also within the context of the critical issues of American culture. From Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy, many of the best and...
Revolutionaries, Rebels and Robbers
The Golden Age of Banditry in Mexico, Latin America and the Chicano American Southwest, 1850-1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
This volume delivers a comprehensive study of banditry in Latin America and of its cultural representation. In its scope across the continent, looking closely at nations where bandit culture has manifested itself forcefully ― Mexico (the subject of the case study), the Hispanic south-west of the...
The Brazilian Road Movie
Journeys of (self) Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
The Brazilian Road Movie: Journeys of (Self)Discovery explores some of the key trends and films in the development of the road movie in Brazil. Through a collection of essays by distinguished scholars, and covering a broad range of case studies, this text spans Brazilian film production from the silent...
Nietzsche and Napoleon
The Dionysian Conspiracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Among Nietzsche’s favourite authors were Bonapartists, who largely formed Nietzsche’s view of Napoleon – open the pages of the Nietzschean corpus and you will find a Napoleonic landscape, and Nietzsche’s promotion of Napoleon serves to support the Bonapartist movement of the late nineteenth...
by Jane Aaron
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
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,...
by Angela Wright
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Mary Shelley reappraises the significance of Frankenstein alongside other works by Shelley which could be considered to revise the significance and fluctuating meanings of ‘Gothic’ during the Romantic period. It offers scholarly, fresh readings of the 1818 and 1831 editions of Frankenstein, as...
'The Bard is a Very Singular Character'
Iolo Morganwg, Marginalia and Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
A cunning and successful literary forger, Iolo Morganwg has been a controversial figure within Welsh literary tradition and history ever since his death in 1826. During his lifetime, however, he was largely a figure on the margins of Welsh literary society, who found the task of getting his work into...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The essays in this book aim to answer the following questions: What was the place of prayer in the early modern world? What did it look and sound like? Of what aesthetic and political structures did it partake, and how did prayer affect art, literature and politics? How did the activities, expressions...
France's Colonial Legacies
Memory, Identity and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In an era of commemoration, France’s Colonial Legacies contributes to the debates taking place in France about the place of empire in the contemporary life of the nation, debates that have been underway since the 1990s and that now reach across public life and society with manifestations in the...
Cultivating the Heart
Feeling and Emotion in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Religious Texts
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Cultivating the Heart examines the nurturance of feeling – especially the intertwined affective stirrings of compassion, love, and sorrow – in a range of religious texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. These texts encourage, stimulate, define and attempt to express the ‘cultivation...
by Ralph Berry
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Shakespeare’s use of location governs his dramas. Some he was personally familiar with, like Windsor; some he knew through his imagination, like Kronborg Castle (‘Elsinore’); some matter because Shakespeare’s plays were performed there, like Hampton Court and the Great Hall of the Middle Temple....
by Roger Owen
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Gwenlyn Parry was one of the most important Welsh-language playwrights of the twentieth century and played a key role in the popularisation and flourishing of drama in the theatre and on television during the 1970s and 1980s. Parry’s major stage plays – Saer Doliau, Tŷ ar y Tywod, Y Ffin and...
by Timothy Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture offers a new account of the American Gothic. Gothic studies, the field that explores horrid and frightful narratives, usually describes the genre as exploring genuine historical fears, crises and traumas, yet this does not account for the ways in...
Scientific Americans
The Making of Popular Science and Evolution in Early-Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Demonstrating the timely relevance of Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Jack London and Henry Adams, this book shows how debates about evolution, identity, and a shifting world picture have uncanny parallels with the emerging global systems that shape our own lives. Tracing these systems’ take-off...