Footsteps of ’Liberty and Revolt’

A collection of essays exploring the impact on Welsh culture of one of the most exciting periods in history, the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789.

A collection of essays exploring the impact on Welsh culture of one of the most exciting periods in history, the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789.

1. Introduction: Writing the Revolution in Wales Mary-Ann Constantine and Dafydd Johnston 2. Wales as Nowhere: the tabula rasa of the 'Jacobin' imagination Caroline Franklin 3. Rousseau and Wales Heather Williams 4. 'Our first concern as lovers of our country must be to enlighten it': Richard Price's response to the French Revolution Paul Frame and Geoffrey W. Powell 5. The Welsh in Revolutionary Paris Mary-Ann Constantine 6. The 'Marseillaise' in Wales Marion Loffler 7. The 'Rural Voltaire' and the 'French madcaps' Geraint H. Jenkins 8. Networking the nation: the bardic and correspondence networks of Wales and London in the 1790s Cathryn A. Charnell-White 9. Radical adaptation: translations of medieval Welsh poetry in the 1790s Dafydd Johnston 10. 'Brave Republicans': representing the Revolution in a Welsh interlude Ffion Mair Jones 11. 'A good Cambrio-Briton': Hester Thrale Piozzi, Helen Maria Williams, and the Welsh sublime in the 1790s Jon Mee 12. What is a national Gothic? Murray Pittock 13. Terror, treason and tourism: the French in Pembrokeshire 1797 Hywel M. Davies 14. The voices of war: poetry from Wales 1794 - 1804 Elizabeth Edwards 15. The Revd William Howels (1778 - 1832) of Cowbridge and London: the making of an anti-radical Stephen K. Roberts