Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies : Wales, Anglocentrism and English Literature
by
Andrew Webb
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Writing Wales in English
ISBN-10
0708326226
ISBN-13
9780708326220
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Imprint
University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 31st, 2013
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
314 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.60 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: poetry & poets
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This book uses models of 'world literature' to present this 'quintessentially English' writer as a pioneering figure in an Anglophone Welsh literary tradition, a controversial reading that contributes to the present-day reconfiguration of cultural relations between Wales, England, Scotland
Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies offers a revelatory rereading of the early twentieth century English poet Edward Thomas (1878–1917). Adapting Pascale Casanova’s vision of world literature as a system of competing national traditions, Andrew Webb analyzes Thomas’s appropriation of Anglocentric British literary culture during key moments of historical crisis in the twentieth century: after World War I, before and after World War II, and the resumption of war in Ireland in the 1970s. Webb shows how the dominant linguistic assumptions underpinning the discipline of English literature marginalize the Welshness of Thomas’s work. He then combines this revised world literature model with fresh archival research to reveal how Thomas’s reading of Welsh culture—its folk and literary traditions—is central to both his creation of an innovative body of poetry and to his extensive prose.
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