| Rhys Davies Contributor(s): Osborne, Huw (Author) |
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ISBN: 0708321674 ISBN-13: 9780708321676 Publisher: University of Wales Press OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Rhys Davies (1901-78) was a highly prolific writer and one of the first novelists to depict industrial Wales, making his sixty-year career a seminal influence of Welsh literary culture. Davies was a complicated figure himself: a gay man who grew up as a shopkeeper's son in the Rhondda, he ultimately left Wales to write about his homeland in England. This volume unravels his national experience and its deep ties to complex issues of class, sexuality, and gender, as it follows a career considered to be that of "the representative Welshman." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Writers of Wales |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Rhys Davies (1901-78) was a highly prolific writer and one of the first novelists to depict industrial Wales, making his sixty-year career a seminal influence of Welsh literary culture. Davies was a complicated figure himself: a gay man who grew up as a shopkeeper's son in the Rhondda, he ultimately left Wales to write about his homeland in England. This volume unravels his national experience and its deep ties to complex issues of class, sexuality, and gender, as it follows a career considered to be that of "the representative Welshman." |