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Drawing on key concepts and ideas from animal studies, this is the first study of how Welsh literature explores relationships among animals and between humans and animals. Approaching Welsh writing from the perspective of a universe in which all living things are connected, it examines how Welsh authors depict subjects such as intelligence, sensibility and knowledge from an animal perspective.

This startlingly original novel tells the compelling life story of Mary Jane Kelly, the last victim of one of Britain's most infamous serial killers, Jack the Ripper, and the story of a Welsh veterinary surgeon, who, on discovering her mother's dementia, sets out to preserve her family history, only to find that Mary Jane is her unexpected three-times great grandmother. The anecdotes and fragments of Mary Jane's intriguing life are brought tog...

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The book argues that pacifism and peace have played an important part in Welsh life and culture, and is an important but overlooked subject in Welsh studies.

Virginia Woolf has emerged from recent scholarship as a less inward-looking and other-worldly writer than she was depicted for more than half a century. However, this is the first book to address the cryptographic nature of her writings about politics and history. Approaching each of her novels in turn through theoretical frameworks provided by Michel Foucault, Mikhail Bakhtin and contemporary social theorists, Linden Peach argues that Woolf i...

Toni Morrison is universally recognised for reclaiming the occluded narratives of African-American history and the Africanist presence in American national identity. This revised version of Toni Morrison (previously published in the Macmillan Modern Novelists Series) highlights the extent to which her work invokes, often subversively, familiar African-American and Euro-American verbal narratives and is engaged by the histories that are obscure...

This New Casebook provides an overview of the criticism of work by Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature, and an introduction to the key works and issues in African-American literary scholarship. It is supported by the first annotated bibliography of the different critical approaches which have been taken to Morrison's fiction. The essays provide insights into the structure, themes, language and ...

Virginia Woolf has emerged from recent scholarship as a less inward-looking and other-worldly writer than she was depicted for more than half a century. However, this is the first book to address the cryptographic nature of her writings about politics and history. Approaching each of her novels in turn through theoretical frameworks provided by Michel Foucault, Mikhail Bakhtin and contemporary social theorists, Linden Peach argues that Woolf i...

Welsh writing has recently undergone an international renaissance--however, very little of this attention has been directed toward women's fiction. Aimed at a general audience with a broad array of interests, "Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women's Fiction" is the first comparative study of fiction by late-twentieth and twenty-first-century women writers from Ireland, North Ireland, and Wales. This volume breaks new ground in its exploration of ...

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Emyr Humphreys, born in 1919, is one of the most prolific and significant modern Welsh writers. Generally rooted in North Wales, his fiction provides fresh insights into modern Welsh history, nonconformity, and globalization. This pioneering book explores Humphreys's work from a range of contemporary critical perspectives and stresses its relevance to the twenty-first century. Through readings that highlight such subjects as gender identity, f...

This textbook provides an examination of modern literary theory and critical appreciation from the perspective of the creative writer. The book is intended for students of English literature and language, teachers, student teachers and teacher educators.