Hidden Texts, Hidden Nation
(Re)Discoveries of Wales in Travel Writing in French and German (1780-2018)
Kathryn N Jones, Carol Tully & Heather Williams
Hidden Texts, Hidden Nation
(Re)Discoveries of Wales in Travel Writing in French and German (1780-2018)
Kathryn N Jones, Carol Tully & Heather Williams
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This book offers a fresh and timely ‘European’ perspective on Wales and Welshness. Uncovering rare travel texts in French and German from 1780 to now it provides a valuable case-study of a culture that is often minoritized, and demonstrates the value of multilingual research and a transnational approach.
‘This rich, readable book surveys almost 250 years of writing by European travellers to Wales, from private letters to conventionally published works to contemporary digital forms. It broaches a remarkable, original field of research, encompasses a wide historical, linguistic, and critical range, and presents an impressive array of materials previously invisible to scholarship.’
Mererid Puw Davies, Modern Language Review
Kathryn Jones is an Associate Professor of French at Swansea University. Carol Tully is a Professor of German and the Pro-Vice Chancellor at Bangor University. Heather Williams is a Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.
‘This rich, readable book surveys almost 250 years of writing by European travellers to Wales, from private letters to conventionally published works to contemporary digital forms. It broaches a remarkable, original field of research, encompasses a wide historical, linguistic, and critical range, and presents an impressive array of materials previously invisible to scholarship.’
Mererid Puw Davies, Modern Language Review
‘This is an innovative book that combines cross-cultural dialogue with the “tourist gaze” in order to explain the gap between fabricated expectations and real destinations. Drawing on a wide literature and on neglected – sometimes anonymous – texts in French, German and Breton that the authors took great effort to uncover and recover, Hidden Texts, Hidden Nation is a substantial book that should be enjoyed not only by cultural historians of the period in question, but also by students, university teaching staff, translators, specialists in travel literature as well as anyone interested in the topic.’ Elena Butoescu, CompLit
Kathryn Jones is an Associate Professor of French at Swansea University. Carol Tully is a Professor of German and the Pro-Vice Chancellor at Bangor University. Heather Williams is a Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.