Distant fields : eighteenth-century fictions of Wales / Moira Dearnley.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Dearnley, Moira.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
• English fiction.
• English fiction--Welsh authors--History and criticism.
• Intellectual life.
• English fiction--Welsh authors.
• Wales--Intellectual life--18th century.
• Wales--In literature.
• Wales.
• Welsh in literature.

Physical Description:

xxi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2001.

Contents:

• 1 'Ludicrous strategems and humiliating misadventures': an introductory view of the Welsh in the popular literature of the seventeenth century 1
• 2 A place 'rich in Virtue': The Life of Madam de Beaumount / Penelope Aubin 12
• 3 'A Genuine Account of the Life': travellers' tales 26
• 4 A revenge tragedy: The True Anti-Pamela / James Parry 50
• 5 'Ye chaste Abodes of happiest Mortals': The History of Ophelia / Sarah Fielding 68
• 6 'O Rus, quando te aspiciam!': Humphry Clinker and other satires of London 80
• 7 'God has called us into Wales': The Spiritual Quixote / Richard Graves 94
• 8 The first Welsh industrial novel?: Eugenius / Richard Graves 106
• 9 'The venerable name of religion': Druidism in Imogen / William Godwin 114
• 10 Proud Cambrians and mantua makers: Anna, or, Memoirs of a Welch Heiress / Anna Maria Bennett 130
• 11 'In the airy Regions of Fancy': Ellen, Countess of Castle Howel / Anna Maria Bennett 145
• 12 Removing silver buttons: Elisa Powell / Edward 'Celtic' Davies 158
• 13 Perdita, Wales and the monster: Mary Robinson's Welsh novels 172
• Appendix Eighteenth-century fictions of Wales 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-240) and index.

ISBN:

0708316956

OCLC:

47270119