A reference work about Wales, it contains entries on various kinds of people and places which have made it so culturally, historically and geographically rich. It also covers topics ranging from: Snowdonia to the pampas of Patagonia, folk heroes to Welsh Olympians, and the men and women of Wales who have excelled in art, culture and politics.

Addresses the gap for an analysis of Shakespeare's relation to the Gothic.

Planet is a Welsh magazine published in English devoted to modern Welsh literature and language and the wide ramifications of the political context in which they exist. The 35 essays range from the first issue in 1970 until 1992 and so chronicle political thought over the past two decades. The authors include some of the biggest names in Welsh

A comprehensive bibliography of anthologies and criticism relating to Anglo-Welsh writing in general, and a more detailed guide to 24 of the most prominant 20th-century writers and the critical response to their work.

This work brings together a number of writings and research focused on the multicultural nature of Wales. It provides an overview stretching across some 200 years aiming to illustrate ethnic diversity in Wales and its contemporary significance.

This study of Goronwy Rees (1909-79) sets his writings in the context of a dramatically eventful life. The author also discusses Rees' complex relationship with Wales and how, although an unwavering advocate of home rule, he was perceived in his native country as being anti-Welsh.

This is an account of the central importance of money in the ordinary business of the life of different people throughout the ages from ancient times to the beginning of the 21st century.

Challenges the critical view that Gothic is a vehicle for anti-Catholic, anticlerical sentiment. This book appeals the view that the Catholic motifs contained in Gothic novels (monks, nuns, abbeys, confessionals) signify anti-Catholic prejudice and anti-Church subversiveness on the part of the author and the audience.

Challenges the critical view that Gothic is a vehicle for anti-Catholic, anticlerical sentiment. This book appeals the view that the Catholic motifs contained in Gothic novels (monks, nuns, abbeys, confessionals) signify anti-Catholic prejudice and anti-Church subversiveness on the part of the author and the audience.

A comparative study of British and American literature and culture in the 1790s and 1950s. It explores the republican tradition of the British Enlightenment and the effect of its translation and migration to the American colonies.

Offers guidance to buying and running a smallholding in Wales, aimed at would-be downshifters, wherever they may live.

Imagined as both Celtic country and English county, Cornwall is a land of contrasts. This book traces the tensions produced by its history, from an independent British kingdom through a culturally distinct medieval province and a prominent industrial region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to its location as a post-industrial paradox.

Based on the research of Dr W Gareth Evans into state secondary schools in Wales from 1896-2000. This is an original, comprehensive study of the history of external examinations in the schools of Wales during the twentieth century. It demonstrates how the system of external examinations has developed in Wales over the last century.

Explores and assesses the twentieth century's fascination with the ghost in relation to notions of identity, authorship and memory, tracing the changing form of the ghost in key twentieth-century French media: film, photography, literature and theory.

Using South Wales as a case study, this text on crime in the 20th century places the discussion in its historical context, and contributes to debates on crime, policing and punishment. South Wales has the geography of a county police, and some of the problems of a metropolitan police area.

This is a study of the work of James Hanley, who was brought up in Liverpool and worked as a merchant seaman before becoming a professional writer. It discusses Hanley's relationship to London and the institutional culture of high modernism, and his association with Wales.

This collection of essays re-examines the reaction of the Welsh people to war. Focussing on a series of conflicts from the mid-nineteenth to the mid twentieth centuries it offers a sharp corrective to the generally accepted picture of Wales as a nation wedded to pacifism. If those in the urban and industrial south, tied as they were into Britain's Imperial economy, were often enthusiastic ...

This volume focuses on one relationship that has featured prominently in the debate about the decline of the Westaphalian model of the nation-state - citizenship. It argues for a distinctive approach to theories of citizenship.