Full Project Title: '‘Aloof Among its Beeches’: Welsh Writing in English – representations of the Gentry House from the Late Eighteenth century onwards'
Doctoral Researcher: Sara Fox
Supervised by: Dr Lowri Ann Rees and Dr Andrew Webb
There has been significant academic interest in the novel of the Big House in Ireland and the country house novel in England from historians as well as literary critics, leading to hybrid approaches between the two disciplines. However, a combined study has yet to be undertaken into fictional representations of the gentry house in Wales. Fictional narrative overlies the historical account and the imagined ‘big’ house of the novel, resonates with the real history of higher status houses. Can the corpus of Welsh writing in English yield emotional, political and cultural insights towards the recovery of a vanished Welsh past?
Recent activity: Publication of Middleton Hall: a history.
