Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution 1793-1815 (Wales and the French Revolution) - Softcover

Ffion Mair Jones

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0708324614 ISBN 13: 9780708324615

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2012

Synopsis

Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution (1793 1815) is an edition of ballads composed in the Welsh language during a momentous period in the history of Western civilization. The texts respond to the upheavals of the Revolutionary decade and its aftermath, as people in Britain began to react to the violent deaths of the French monarchs, to the danger of invasion attempts or imitative revolts in Britain, and to the challenge of mobilization on a larger scale than ever before. Parallel translations of the texts, together with copious contextualizing notes, provide access for the first time to a corpus of ballads composed by a host of little-known authors. The volume thus puts both Wales and the ballad as a genre on the map of British reactions to the Revolution in France.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Ffion Mair Jones has been a Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies since October 2001, working initially on the Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic Tradition in Wales project and currently on the Wales and the French Revolution Project .

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0708324614
• ISBN 13: 9780708324615
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464