Footsteps of Liberty and Revolt
Essays on Wales and the French Revolution
9780708325919
Distributed for University of Wales Press
Footsteps of Liberty and Revolt
Essays on Wales and the French Revolution
All of Europe was swept up in the events of the French Revolution and the radical restructuring of society that occurred in its aftermath. This collection of essays by leading academics explores how Welsh clerics, diplomats, singers, poets, journalists, and soldiers—many of whom traveled to Paris to witness the conflict firsthand—responded to the Revolution.

Reviews
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Writing the Revolution in Wales
May-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 Löffler
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
Index
Be the first to know
Get the latest updates on new releases, special offers, and media highlights when you subscribe to our email lists!