Footsteps of 'Liberty and Revolt' : Essays on Wales and the French Revolution.

Intro -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Writing the Revolution in Wales -- Wales as Nowhere: the tabula rasa of the 'Jacobin' imagination -- Rousseau and Wales -- 'Our first concern as lovers of our country must be to enlighten it':Richard Price's response to the French Revolution -- The Welsh in Revolutionary Paris -- The 'Marseillaise' in Wales -- The 'Rural Voltaire' and the 'French madcaps' -- Networking the nation: the bardic and correspondence networks of Wales and London in the 1790s -- Radical adaptation: translations of medieval Welsh poetry in the 1790s -- 'Brave Republicans': representing the Revolution in a Welsh interlude -- 'A good Cambrio-Briton': Hester Thrale Piozzi, Helen Maria Williams and the Welsh sublime in the 1790s -- What is a national Gothic? -- Terror, treason and tourism: the French in Pembrokeshire 1797 -- The voices of war: poetry from Wales 1794-1804 -- The Revd William Howels (1778-1832) of Cowbridge and London: the making of an anti-radical -- Index.

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