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- Title
Iniquity, Terror and Survival: Welsh Gothic, 1789-1804.
- Authors
EDWARDS, ELIZABETH
- Abstract
Literary critics have recently begun to draw attention to 'national Gothic', outlining the importance of themes of conflict and defeated and victorious histories in this form of the Gothic. The contested and unsettled history of Wales provides the perfect conditions for a national Gothic, yet little work has yet been done towards the notion of a specifically Welsh Gothic in the period following the French revolution. This article explores four variations on the theme of writing Gothic in revolution-era Wales: a tourist Gothic, a Jacobin Gothic, a loyalist Gothic and a post-colonial Gothic. It shows how writers of this period used the conflicts and iniquities of the Welsh past equally to illustrate Wales's incorporation within a larger united Britain and to figure its otherness, its familiar difference, relative to its historical enemy - England.
- Subjects
WALES; GOTHIC fiction (Literary genre); ENGLISH literature; WALES description &; travel; JACOBINS; POSTCOLONIALISM in literature; WELSH authors
- Publication
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 1, p119
- ISSN
1754-0194
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1111/j.1754-0208.2011.00415.x