In the Shadow of the Pulpit

by Thomas, M. Wynn

• ISBN13: 9780708322253
• ISBN10: 0708322255
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-15
• Publisher: Univ of Wales Pr

Summary

Since the earliest days of language, writers and preachers have been locked in a struggle for power and authority.In the Shadow of the Pulpitshows how that struggle has been at the heart of Welsh writing for more than two centuries, intimately shaping the English-language literature produced in Wales in that time. It traces the growing literary response to the power of Welsh Nonconformity from the eighteenth century onwards, and it also uncovers a whole new body of nineteenth-century fiction from Wales.

Author Biography

M. Wynn Thomas is Professor of English and Emyr Humphreys Professor of English at Swansea University. A Fellow of the British Academy and Vice-President of the Learned Society of Wales, he has published twenty books on American poetry and on the two literatures of Wales.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Illustrations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Preacher's Wor(l)d
A Bluffer's Guide to Welsh Nonconformity	p. 18
The Long Nonconformist Century	p. 44
Bringing Nonconformity to Book	p. 77
Writer's Wor(l)d
War of Words: The Preacher and the Writer	p. 116
Spoiled Preachers	p. 153
Wales BC	p. 182
Individual Worlds
'Marlais': Dylan Thomas and the 'Tin Bethels'	p. 226
'Fucking and Forgiveness': The Case of Glyn Jones	p. 256
'Solid in Goodly Counsel': The Chapels Write Back	p. 294
Epilogue	p. 330
Notes	p. 338
Index	p. 357
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