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Book SynopsisRhys Davies dedicated his life to writing and is regarded as one of the most accomplished Welsh prose-writers in English. This volume contains essays on major aspects of his life and work, from the literary, social and national contexts within which he wrote to issues of gender, sexuality and race.
Trade Review'...this volume offers a rich variety of critical approaches to the work a writer of undeniable importance to Anglo-Welsh literature...an engaging and lively critical contribution to Welsh writing in English.' New Welsh Review
Table of ContentsMeic Stephens [Glamorgan] Introduction Dai Smith [BBC Wales] Rhys Davies and his 'Turbulent Valley' Michael J. Dixon [postgrad, Glamorgan] The Epic Rhondda: Romanticism and Realism in the Rhondda Trilogy Stephen Knight [Professor of English, Cardiff] 'Not a Place for Me': Rhys Davies's Fiction and the Coal Industry Tony Brown [Bangor] 'The Memory of Lost Countries': Rhys Davies's Wales Daniel Williams [Swansea] Withered Roots: Ideas of Race in the Work of Rhys Davies and D. H. Lawrence Barbara Prys-Williams [postgrad, Swansea] Rhys Davies as Autobiographer: Hare or Houdini? D. A. Callard [-] 'One rainy Sunday afternoon...' J. Lawrence Mitchell [Professor of English, Texas A&M University] 'I wish I had a Trumpet': Rhys Davies and the Creative Impulse Linden Peach [Professor of English, Loughborough University] Eccentricity and Lawlessness in the Stories of Rhys Davies Jeff Wallace [Glamorgan] Lawrentianisms: Rhys Davies and D. H. Lawrence James A. Davies [formerly Swansea] 'Love and the need of it': Three Novels Katie Gramich [Open University] The Masquerade of Gender in the Stories of Rhys Davies Jane Aaron [Professor of English, Glamorgan] Daughters of Darkness: Rhys Davies's Revenge Tragedies Kirsti Bohata [postgrad, Swansea] The Black Venus Simon Baker and Joanna Furber [Swansea, SB is Lecturer, JF is postgrad] 'Unspeakable Rites': Writing the Unspeakable M. Wynn Thomas [Professor of English, Swansea] 'Never seek to tell thy love': Rhys Davies's Fiction
