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Assimilation and its Discontents: Wales in British Literature
Daniel Williams 
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Daniel Williams
Abstract
How have the ways in which Britishness been imagined and re-imagined in literature from a Welsh perspective? What is the relationship between Britishness and Welshness? How has that relationship been imagined in literature and culture? Beginning with Shakespeare and ending with Raymond Williams, Dan...
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2017
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http://dase.laits.utexas.edu/media/bsls/mp3/100540331.mp3 |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36855 |
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How have the ways in which Britishness been imagined and re-imagined in literature from a Welsh perspective? What is the relationship between Britishness and Welshness? How has that relationship been imagined in literature and culture? Beginning with Shakespeare and ending with Raymond Williams, Daniel Williams will suggest that the Welsh have played a constitutive, if problematic, role in the making of Britishness.Recording of a lecture delivered to the British Studies Faculty, University of Texas at Austin. |
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| Keywords: |
Wales. Britain. Assimilation. Shakespeare. Matthew Arnold. George Eliot |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |