Beyond the Difference: Welsh Literature in Comparative Contexts

Beyond the Difference is a celebration of the work of Wales’s leading literary critic M. Wynn Thomas, with contributions from internationally acclaimed writers and poets, as well as significant critics working in the field.

Looking initially at the relationships between the English and Welsh language literatures of Wales, the volume proceeds to explore the interactions of nationhood and gender from the late nineteenth century to the present day, the politics of translation in Wales as compared to Ireland and America, and the intriguing connections between Welsh literature and American, African American, Irish and Jewish literary traditions.

Daniel G. Williams is a senior lecturer in English and the director of the Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales at Swansea University.


Daniel Williams is a lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the editor of Raymond Williams’s Who Speaks for Wales? (2003) and has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Welsh writing in English. Alyce von Rothkirch is Widening Participation Research Officer at the Centre for Community and Lifelong Learning, University of Wales College, Newport.