Books published by University of Wales Press

This third volume of the speeches and articles of The Prince of Wales includes a thematic expansion to the section on `Climate Change and Sustainability', accommodating a number of texts that address the interconnected relationship between economic, social and environmental sustainability.

Mae'r llyfr hwn yn astudiaeth o'r modd y mae'r gyfraith wedi cael ei phortreadu gan feirdd a llenorion Cymraeg, o'r Oesoedd Canol hyd at heddiw. Adroddir hanes Cymru trwy gyfrwng delweddau o'r gyfraith mewn llenyddiaeth.

Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764-1897 traces anatomical culture in Gothic texts from Horace Walpole to Bram Stoker, showing how the Gothic developed and evolved alongside the medical profession, and proposing a genealogy of some of the Gothic texts that marked the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in Horror, from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century.

This book explores the presence, role and function of horror in videogames, showing how they enter discussions of horror and how videogames offer a unique, radical space that horror is particularly suited to fill.

This is the first book to present a series of critical essays on the work of the Argentine-born Welsh writer Lynette Roberts.

The book argues that pacifism and peace have played an important part in Welsh life and culture, and is an important but overlooked subject in Welsh studies.

A collection of academic articles on Goan literature in Portuguese, stretching from the colonial late-nineteenth century to the postcolonial period of the 1960s and 1970s.

Adopting a novel cross-disciplinary approach, this book demonstrates the value of understanding human bodies as fundamentally influenced and affected by the other materials available in diverse landscapes. Using a rich mix of ethnographic, archaeological and historical examples, it explores the creative roles materials have taken in shaping past a

An exciting, interdisciplinary collection of essays examining women's relationship to the city, which radically challenges many of the accepted commonplaces surrounding women's roles and positions within an urban space typically characterised as masculine.

This book traces the history of African American music in Wales from 1850, and Welsh women's contribution to the music.

The relative educational, employment and lifecourse disadvantages of individuals who have experienced the care system remains an issue of widespread international concern. The chapters in this edited collection will be useful for readers across geographical contexts, who are concerned with improving the lives of children and young people.

This text argues that communication is the foundation on which a society is based and the means by which it maintains political, economic and social relationships with other societies. Issues covered include who "owns" information, and what the cultural implications of the information age will be.

This collection discusses religion in Scotland and Wales from an historical perspective and examines the contribution of religion to the sense of national identity in the period from the Evangelical Revival to the present day. The book suggests that religion is key to the nations' histories.

This introduction to the life and work of Bert Coombes should be valuable not just for its assessment of Coombes, but for the light that it sheds on the social and industrial context in which he lived. His writing articulated the social and economic injustice of contemporary capitalism.

This guide presents a dictionary of the Welsh Language.

After a shaky start, the Welsh National Agricultural Society founded in 1904 was to surmount many problems and difficulties in its first 70 years or so to become by the 1980s one of the three major agricultural societies in the United Kingdom. This work provides the Society's success story.

This book analyses Carmen Martin Gaite's novels published in the 1990s. The book is particularly important for its focus on the way a persistent presence of visual elements (drawing, painting and collage) shed light on the relevance of her residence in the United States.

Dissonant Neighbours offers a new insight into the medieval literatures of Britain.

The focus of this volume is the north of England and its regions in the late medieval period. Concentrating on the north as a centre of manuscript production, dissemination and reception, this volume aims to illustrate the fluidity of boundaries and communication, and the resulting links to different geographical regions.

This book examines the achievements of Welsh rulers - such as Llywelyn the Great and Llywelyn the Last in the so-called Age of the Princes - but also probes the factors, including the hostility of other Welsh leaders and communities, which led to the ultimate failure of the Llywelyns and the conquest of their principality by Edward I.

An investigation into the connections between illumination and literature; exploring the spaces between light and dark symbolism through an analysis of artificial light.

SHORT BLURB(EDITED) This book clearly demonstrates that religion was not rejected by those scientists who embraced Darwinism, or by those who believed in the scientific management of human population.

A collection of essays providing a reliable, accessible and up-to-date introduction to Arthurian literature and popular traditions in the Celtic languages, from the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The figure of Arthur and the characters associated with him change as the stories are reworked for audiences in the different countries and at different periods.

This volume examines a selection of the most complex and important servant characters and servant narratives in early Gothic literature. It defines servant narratives as a Gothic `performance', and examines such servants' impact on literary, social and personal identity.

This is the first book to describe and analyse the anti-war movement in Wales, and provides an insight into the two main strands of opposition to the war on religious and political grounds. This work details the breadth of anti-war activity and, for the first time, reveals and analyses the 900 conscientious objectors identified in Wales.