The Truth Against the World: Iolo Morganwg and Romantic Forgery (Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic Tradition in Wales) - Hardcover

Mary-Ann Constantine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708320627 ISBN 13: 9780708320624

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2007

Synopsis

During Iolo Morganwg's lifetime Britain was obsessed with literary forgery. This book reveals the unexpected connections and hidden influences behind Britain's most successful (and hence, perhaps, least visible) Romantic forger. It explores Iolo's own strongly-held ideas about the Truth-historical, literary and religious.

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Synopsis:

During Iolo Morganwg's lifetime Britain was obsessed with literary forgery. This book reveals the unexpected connections and hidden influences behind Britain's most successful (and hence, perhaps, least visible) Romantic forger. Quoting extensively from unpublished manuscripts, it explores Iolo's own strongly-held ideas about the Truth-historical, literary and religious - and shows how he responded to the work and the criticism of both James Macpherson and Thomas Chatterton. It also shows how, after death, his ideas affected the Breton writer Hersart de La Villemarque, whose ordination as a Iolo-style bard in 1838 helped to bring about a Celtic cultural revival in Brittany. The subject sits neatly at the intersection of two currently popular critical domains: British Romantic literary forgery, and Celticism, a subject which explores the development of mutual contact between the Celtic-speaking regions, as well as the complex relationship between the peripheries and the centre.

About the Author:

Mary-Ann Constantine is a Senior Research Fellow and Project Leader for Wales and the French Revolution at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0708320627
• ISBN 13: 9780708320624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 231