Welsh Responses to the French Revolution: Press and Public Discourse, 1789-1802 (Wales and the French Revolution) - Softcover

Löffler, Marion

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0708324894 ISBN 13: 9780708324899

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2012

Synopsis

The French Revolution inflamed public opinion in Wales just as it did throughout the world. Welsh Responses to the French Revolution delves into the mass of periodical and serial literature published in Wales between 1789 and 1802 to reveal the range of radical, loyalist, and patriotic Welsh responses to the Revolution and the Revolutionary Wars. This anthology presents an English-language selection of poetry and prose published in the annual Welsh almanacs, the English provincial newspapers published close to Wales’s border, and the three radical Welsh periodicals of the mid-1790s, all alongside the original Welsh texts. An insightful introduction gives much-needed context to the selections by sketching out the printing culture of Wales, analyzing its public discourse, and interpreting the Welsh voices in their British political context.

About this title

About the Author

Marion Löffler is a research fellow at the University of Wales for Welsh and Celtic Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0708324894
• ISBN 13: 9780708324899
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 332