The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature
- Submitting institution
-
Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 36029
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
-
10.1017/9781316227206
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107514423
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
1
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is a highly significant output which was commissioned by the New York office of Cambridge University Press. My contribution included the design and editing of the book, co-authorship of the introduction and afterword and authorship of two chapters which are based on new research and make an original contribution to the field. Other volumes in the same CUP series have recently been entered as 4* double-weighted items, most recently at the University of York in 2013, where the English department was rated number 1 and then number 2 in the country in REF2008 and REF2013.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This comprehensive literary history of Wales, the first of its kind to cover the literatures of both languages from the earliest writing through to the present day, comprises 35 chapters as well as an Introduction and Afterword. The book is also the first literary history of Wales to be published by a major university press outside Wales. The original idea and design for the book, including the chapter topics and historical summaries at the head of each section, was devised by Evans, who co-opted the co-editor, Helen Fulton (University of Bristol), to provide complementary skills and knowledge in the medieval sections of the book. The descriptive summary of the design and contents of the book, which was submitted to CUP prior to commissioning, was itself over 10,000 words long, and this was the template which was used as a guide by other contributors. Evans contributed two chapters, covering early modern to contemporary Wales, and co-wrote the Introduction and Afterword (approx 25,000 out of 340,000 words). He shared the initial editorial work with his co-editor but was responsible for seeing the later sections of the book through the press, including copy editing and reading three sets of proofs. The book represents the culmination of Evans’s research specialism in the literature of Wales in both languages, from the early modern period to the twentieth-century, and his engagement with the cultural politics of Wales before and after devolution.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -
