For anyone interested in Romantic essays about Welsh #folklore, #antiquarian studies, #Gothic and short stories, #HistoricalFiction or early #Tasmanian writing, allow me to share my comprehensive bibliography of Thomas Richards (1800-1877), formerly of Dolgellau before emigrating to Hobart via London in the early 1830s. Wherever possible, I have linked to #OpenAccess digital copies of any of his writings that I have been able to trace. This is a work in progress, so I hope to share future updates of the bibliography.

#Romantodons #Wales #Tasmania #LitStudies #WelshWritingInEnglish @litstudies

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/thomas-richards-1800-1877-a-bibliography-in-progress/

Re-sharing for the weekend crowd. The official link to our lovely #OpenAccess collection, 'Minoritised Languages and Travel' in the Modern Languages Open journal.

https://modernlanguagesopen.org/collections/minoritised-languages-and-travel

This is a collection of 5 essays + introduction that explore frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of social, cultural and language hierarchies.

#TravelWriting #ModernLanguages #Romantodons #MinorityLanguages #MinorityCulture #Tourism #History #Travelguide #Diary #Wales #Ireland #Germany #France #Spain #Catalonia #Caribbean #DerekWalcott #Poetry

@academicchatter @histodons

As promised, here's now the official link to our lovely collection, 'Minoritised Languages and Travel' in Modern Languages Open.

Kathryn Walchester explores the silencing of the Welsh travelee. A century and a half later, Marija Bergam locates Derek Walcott as a writer of a minor literature in the sense of Deleuze and Guattari. Anna-Lou Dijkstra’s analysis of recent German and French guidebooks to #Wales uncovers how they pre-emptively interpret the travel destination, resulting in often skewed perceptions of a minoritized culture. Eimear Kennedy’s analysis of Irish travelogues about India explores how travelogues composed in endangered languages can originate from a position of relative socio-cultural privilege. Finally, David Miranda-Barreiro undertakes a close reading of Julio Camba’s travel writings and also in past and contemporary critical academic work on the author.

#TravelWriting #ModernLanguages #OpenAccess #Romantodons @academicchatter @histodons

https://modernlanguagesopen.org/collections/minoritised-languages-and-travel

Tracking my man from Dolgellau around the world, only to find that people have always been terrible.

(My man is the one whose son was bit by the dog.)

#LitStudies #BritishEmpire #Romantodons #Emigration #Tasmania #Wales

Source:
To the Editor of the Colonial Times. (1833, October 15). Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas. : 1828 - 1857), p. 3. Retrieved July 8, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8647241

A historical slap and a half, or: 'Tell me how you really think about Tywyn?!'

#Antiquarians #Wales #Romantodons https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.79396391&view=1up&seq=1566&q1=wales

That moment when you discover that the obscure late-#Romantic writer from #Wales that you've been working on for a few years had been translated into German already in his life time.

Volume 1: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000115247243&view=1up&seq=5
Volume 2: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000115247250&view=1up&seq=7

#Romantodons #RomanticLit #LitStudies #ShortStory #Novella

It's #TwmShonCatti Day today in Wales -- and I almost forgot, despite having produced a newly edited version of 'Wales's first truly Welsh novel' just a few years ago.

Happy hanging out in hidden caves and putting donkeys in the squire's bed day!

Get your fix here: https://celticstudies.wales/shop/the-adventures-and-vagaries-of-twm-shon-catti

#Wales #Literature #Romantodons @litstudies