Ranging from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book
explores several central aspects of the ways in which the
English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what
was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture
of Wales: the culture of Welsh Nonconformity. In the introduction,
the author reflects on why no sustained attempt has hitherto been
made to investigate one of the formative cultural influences on
modern 'Anglo-Welsh' literature, the Nonconformist inheritance. The
importance of addressing this strange and significant cultural
deficit is then explained, and a preliminary attempt made to
capture something of the spirit of Welsh Nonconformity. The
succeeding chapters address and seek to answer such questions as:
What exactly did the Welsh chapels believe and do? Why have the
English-language writers of Wales, from Caradoc Evans and Dylan
Thomas to R.S. Thomas and the authors of today, been so fascinated
by them? How accurate are the impressions we've been given of
chapel life and chapel people in the English-language poetry and
fiction of Wales? The answers offered may alter our views both of
the Welsh Nonconformist past and of Welsh writing in English. One
of the ideas advanced is that many of Wales' most important writers
went to war with the preachers in their texts, and that their work
is therefore the site of cultural struggle. Theirs was a war in
words waged to determine who would have the last word on modern
Welsh experience.
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