In the Shadow of the Pulpit
Literature and Nonconformist Wales
Distributed for University of Wales Press
Since the earliest days of language, writers and preachers have been locked in a struggle for power and authority. In the Shadow of the Pulpit shows how that struggle has been at the heart of Welsh writing for more than two centuries, intimately shaping the English-language literature produced in Wales in that time. It traces the growing literary response to the power of Welsh Nonconformity from the eighteenth century onwards, and it also uncovers a whole new body of nineteenth-century fiction from Wales.
General Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Preacher’s Wor(l)d
1. A Bluffer’s Guide to Welsh Nonconformity
2. The Long Nonconformist Century
3. Bringing Nonconformity to Book
Writer’s Wor(l)d
4. War of Words: The Preacher and the Writer
5. Spoiled Preachers
6. Wales BC
Individual Worlds
7. ‘Marlais’: Dylan Thomas and the ‘Tin Bethels’
8. ‘Fucking and Forgiveness’: The Case of Glyn Jones
9. ‘Solid in Goodly Counsel’: The Chapels Write Back
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature
Religion: Religion and Literature
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