Books published by University of Wales Press

A study of the images of the Welsh female as seen in nineteenth century Welsh literature.

Examining the Welsh Nonconformists' expression of religious and spiritual concepts in a visual form, this volume studies this subject within the broad cultural context that includes fine art, architecture, preaching, hymnology and intangible manifestations such as visions.

This collection of essays discusses some of the problems faced when editing women. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf and Katherine Philips.

Contains all Gwyn Jones' short stories, with those from "The Blue Bed", "The Water Music", "Welsh Heirs", and "Selected Poems". This book offers a critical analysis, addressing the literary context in which the stories, particularly the early ones, were produced, and their critical reception.

This collection of essays provides a survey of writers of fiction from Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa. It discusses the relationship between autobiography and fiction in the work of the Portuguese writer Camilo and popular culture in the novels of Brazilian writer Jorge Amado.

This volume is intended both as an introduction for the general reader and as a source for the specialist. It contains a tribute to Jurek Becker specially written for this work by his friend and colleague, Peter Schneider, together with a revealing interview and tabular biographical outline.

The final title of a series, this volume traces the history of the federal University of Wales through a period of vast expansion and the inherent problems of such an expansion.

The second in a series, this volume traces the history of the federal University of Wales from its foundation in 1893 to the eve of World War II and places it in the broad background of higher education in Britain.

This collection of essays focuses primarily on the narrative voice in French fiction from the mid-19th century to the present, from Balzac through Zola and Proust to the "nouveau roman".

This volume gathers together Glyn Jones's previously published poems, together with a number that appear for the first time.

This text looks at illness and death in Britain as something very dependant upon the whole environment. It adopts the environmental and geographical approach to the study of diseases and death from medieval to modern times.

This full length study provides a basic account of the rationale and content of victimization surveys; it examines the value of crime/victim surveys and deals with the shortcomings of official statistics gathered by the police.

This volume combines a general introduction, an in-depth study of, an interview with, and five original poems by German poet, Sarah Kirsch.

A biography of the poet Nikolay Zabolotsky, written by his son, illustrated with examples of his work and telling in detail the story of his arrest during Stalin's terror, eight years of prison and exile, and stubborn survival.

The contents of this text on social policy, crime and punishment include: crime in the South Wales police district; researching the child victims; justice and responsibility; and race relations in prisons.

An introduction to the life and work of one of the greatest Welsh dramatists of this century. John Gwilym Jones (1904-1988) was also a short-story writer, novelist and literary critic whose work was almost exclusively in the Welsh language.

William Salesbury is a seminal figure in the literary history of Wales. This text provides an introduction to the life and work of Salesbury (c.1520-1584), a scholar and translator of the New Testament into Welsh.

The information provided in this book aims to fill a gap in the reference literature on Wales and contains all the facts that the reader would want to know about the country. The contents are arranged under 17 subject headings in lists and tables so that information can be easily located.

A volume tracing the history and development of the University of Wales published to celebrate the centenary of its founding in 1893 . Black-and-white photographs.