The Oxford Literary History of Wales: Volume 3. Welsh Writing in English, 1536-1914: The First Four Hundred Years

ISBN-13: 9780199562831 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 400 str.

Jane Aaron; Sarah Prescott

Recenzje

Both authors are particularly associated with feminist criticism and the recovery of female literary voices, and their volume is distinguished by the considerable attention given to Welsh women writers.

O autorze

Emeritus Professor at the University of South Wales and Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, Jane Aaron's publications include A Double Singleness: Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb (Clarendon Press, 1991), Pur fel y Dur: Y Gymraes yn Llên Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg (UWP, 1998) which won the Ellis Griffith prize in 1999, and Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales (UWP, 2007), winner of the 2009 Roland Mathias Award. Her most recent volume is Welsh Gothic (UWP, 2013). She co-edited the essay collections Our Sisters' Land: The Changing Identities of Women in Wales (UWP, 1994), Postcolonial Wales (UWP, 2005) and Gendering Border Studies (UWP, 2010), and is also editor of Welsh Women's Classics, published by Honno Press, for which she has edited five volumes. Sarah Prescott is Principal and Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, University College Dublin and Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. She specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British and Irish women's writing and pre-1800 Welsh writing in English and has published many articles and chapters in her subject field. She is the author of Women, Authorship, and Literary Culture, 1690-1740 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), Women and Poetry, 1660-1750 (with S. Prescott and D. Shuttleton, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), Eighteenth-Century Writing from Wales: Bards and Britons (UWP, 2008) and Writing Wales from the Renaissance to Romanticism (with S. Mottram and S. Prescott, Ashgate, 2012). Professor Prescott is the Principal Investigator for the Leverhulme-funded project 'Women's Poetry from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales: 1400-1800'.