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15 Regionalism: Wales
Get accessJane Aaron is Professor Emerita of Literature at the University of South Wales. Her publications include the monographs A Double Singleness: Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb (1991); Pur fel y Dur: Y Gymraes yn Llên Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg (1998), which won the Ellis Griffith prize in 1999; Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing in Wales (2007), winner of the Roland Mathias Award in 2009; Welsh Gothic (2013); and Cranogwen (2023). She also co-authored Welsh Writing in English, 1536–1914, vol. iii of The Oxford Literary History of Wales (2020), and is the series editor of Honno Press’s Welsh Women’s Classics.
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Published:22 May 2024
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Abstract
During the Romantic period the revolutionary spirit of the age inspired many Welsh pamphleteers who, like Richard Price (1723–1791), welcomed the fall of the Bastille. Members of the London–Welsh society, the Gwyneddigion, also advocated pro-revolutionary developments, while at the same time furthering in their prose the late eighteenth-century Celtic Revival. Back in Wales, many pamphleteers were also Dissenting preachers, a factor arguably reflected in their characteristic prose style, which attempted to appeal both to reason and highly spiritualized emotion. Robert Owen (1771–1858) was influenced by Welsh Methodism in his youth in Montgomeryshire; his early socialism, in turn, influenced the letters and pamphlets of men who later became Welsh Chartist leaders. This chapter aims to assess the significance of these political, cultural, and religious developments as they affected Wales, while at the same time drawing attention to certain stylistic aspects which arguably characterized Welsh prose of the Romantic period.
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