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    In the Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales
    In the Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales
    In the Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales
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    In the Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales

    By M. Wynn Thomas

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    Writer versus preacher: this book shows how this struggle has lain at the heart of Welsh writing and culture for the past two hundred years, intimately shaping the English language literature produced by Wales. Starting with a simple explanation of the history and character of Welsh Nonconformity, it traces the growing textual response to Nonconfor
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Wales Press
    Release dateOct 15, 2009
    ISBN9781783164776
    In the Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales
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    M. Wynn Thomas

    M. Wynn Thomas is Professor of English and Emyr Humphreys Professor of English at Swansea University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Learned Society of Wales, and the author of twenty books on the two literatures of Wales and on American poetry.

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      A very good and easy to read analysis of the impact of Nonconformity on the culture and literature of Wales. Interesting to discover how much Unitarianism had a part in it -- not, I imagine, Unitarianism that looks much like my Unitarian Universalism, but still.

      Nonconformism was pretty... ubiquitous. At times, it's almost frightening.

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