The Correspondence of Thomas Stephens: Revolutionising Welsh Scholarship in the Mid-Nineteenth Century through Knowledge Exchange (Celtic Studies Publications, #23)

by Adam Coward

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Thomas Stephens was one of the most significant and controversial nineteenth-century Welsh scholars. His Literature of the Kymry (1849) was the first work to apply modern critical scholarship to medieval Welsh literature. Throughout his career, he was an outspoken critic of unscrupulous interpretations of the Welsh and Celtic past. His scholarly ability brought him into correspondence with notable writers from not only Wales, but across the world. Indeed, writing the year after his death, B. T. Williams noted that the publication of his correspondence 'would be welcomed by all Celtic scholars', as it includes comments by many of the most noted historians, literary critics and Celticists of his day on a wide range of subjects. More than this, however, Stephens's correspondence shows the complex networks of knowledge exchange which stretched across the nineteenth-century scholarly world and, within those networks, the development of modern Welsh and Celtic studies.
  • ISBN10 189127130X
  • ISBN13 9781891271304
  • Publish Date 31 December 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Celtic Studies Publications,U.S.
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 272
  • Language English