Angers, fantasies and ghostly fears
Subtitle: nineteenth-century women from Wales & English language poetry
By: Catherine Brennan.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cardiff
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: English poetry -- Welsh authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Wales -- History -- 19th century; English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Women -- Wales -- Intellectual life; Wales -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Wales -- In literature
Description: "Angers, Fantasies and Ghostly Fears analyses the work of seven Welsh women poets from a relatively neglected period in Welsh literary studies, the nineteenth century. Each of the writers considered, from Jane Cave and Felicia Hemans to Anna Walter Thomas, wrote in a period of rapid and intense social change, yet each maintained her own particular and deeply held connection with Wales." "Catherine Brennan argues that although these writers are doubly marginalized by their gender and nationality from dominant cultural discourses, they nevertheless articulate highly significant questions of poetic identity and authority. Using a range of theoretical perspectives, she shows how consciousness of national identity and poetic representation intersect in this period and suggests that the work of these writers, taken as a whole, opens up new ways of understanding class, gender and 'Welshness' in the nineteenth century." "Angers, Fantasies and Ghostly Fears is a ground-breaking study of writers all too often ignored by mainstream literary history. It will be essential reading for all those interested in the literary history of Welsh writing in English, women's writing in the nineteenth century, and the discourse of insular imperialism."--BOOK JACKET.