The Truth Against the World: Iolo Morganwg and Romantic Forgery (Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic Tradition) - Hardcover

Constantine, Mary-Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708320627 ISBN 13: 9780708320624

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2007

Synopsis

Iolo Morganwg was Britain’s most successful (and hence, least visible) Romantic forger—as well as a poet, Arthurian, influential antiquarian, and laudanum addict. During his lifetime, Britain was fascinated with literary forgery. Iolo’s own strongly-held ideas about the truth—historical, literary, and religious—speak about more than mere deception and offer a provocative look at the blurred intersection of the Celtic and British Romantic worlds. The Truth Against the World examines the complex relationships entangled around Iolo’s forgeries and their criticism, as well as how, after death, his ideas affected the Celtic cultural revival.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary-Ann Constantine is a research fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0708320627
• ISBN 13: 9780708320624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 178