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"Footsteps of liberty and revolt" : essays on Wales and the French Revolution / edited by Mary-Ann Constantine and Dafydd Johnston.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Wales and the French Revolution.
- Wales and the French Revolution
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wales--History--1536-1700.
- Wales.
- Wales--History.
- Wales--History--1284-1536.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff, [Wales] : University of Wales Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection of essays exploring the impact on Welsh culture of one of the most exciting periods in history, the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789.
- Contents:
- List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Writing the Revolution in Wales; Wales as Nowhere: the tabula rasa of the 'Jacobin' imagination; Rousseau and Wales; 'Our first concern as lovers of our country must be to enlighten it':Richard Price's response to the French Revolution; The Welsh in Revolutionary Paris; The 'Marseillaise' in Wales; The 'Rural Voltaire' and the 'French madcaps'; Networking the nation: the bardic and correspondence networks of Wales and London in the 1790's
- Radical adaptation: translations of medieval Welsh poetry in the 1790's 'Brave Republicans': representing the Revolution in a Welsh interlude; 'A good Cambrio-Briton': Hester Thrale Piozzi, Helen Maria Williams and the Welsh sublime in the 1790's; What is a national Gothic?; Terror, treason and tourism: the French in Pembrokeshire 1797; The voices of war: poetry from Wales 1794-1804; The Revd William Howels (1778-1832) of Cowbridge and London: the making of an anti-radical; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 24, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9780708325919
- 0708325912
- OCLC:
- 843198816
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