Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution: 1793-1815 (Wales and the French Revolution) - Softcover

Jones, Ffion Mair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0708324614 ISBN 13: 9780708324615

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2012

Synopsis

Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution is a collection of ballads composed in reaction to the momentous events of the French Revolution and the two decades of war that followed. Ballad writers first responded in 1793, when the French monarchs were executed and France declared war upon Britain, but as the decade proceeded, sang in thanks for the victory of British forces and to the extensive mobilization of militia and volunteer forces. This volume, complete with parallel English translations of the original Welsh texts and copious contextualizing notes, introduces readers to this telling corpus for the first time and to a host of little-known authors.

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About the Author

Ffion Mair Jones is a research fellow at the University of Wales’s Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. She is the author of ‘The Bard Is a Very Singular Character’: Iolo Morganwg, Marginalia and Print Culture, also published by the University of Wales Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0708324614
• ISBN 13: 9780708324615
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 486