Elizabeth Edwards BA, MA, PhD

 

Liz Edwards joined the Centre in January 2009 as a Research Fellow on the ‘Wales and the French Revolution’ project|. Having gained her first degree from Trinity College, Oxford, Liz moved to the University of York, where she completed an MA and Ph.D. at the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

 

She has recently finished editing an anthology of poetry, English-Language Poetry from Wales 1790-1806, and is beginning work on an edition of the poetry of the domestic servant and self-educated antiquarian Richard Llwyd (‘Bard of Snowdon’), Beaumaris Bay and Other Poems. Liz’s research interests also include the Gothic, war poetry, labouring-class poetry (especially Iolo Morganwg), eighteenth-century women’s writing, and travel writing.

Selected Publications:

(ed.) English-Language Poetry from Wales, 1789-1806 (University of Wales Press, forthcoming 2012).

‘The Voices of War: Poetry from Wales, 1794-1804’, in Footsteps of Liberty and Revolt: Essays on Wales and the French Revolution, ed. Mary-Ann Constantine and Dafydd Johnston (University of Wales Press, forthcoming 2013).

‘Confined to a Living Grave: Welsh Gothic and the French Revolution’, in Mysticism, Myth, and Celtic Nationalism, ed. Marion Gibson, Garry Tregidga and Shelley Trower (Routledge, forthcoming 2012).

(with Mary-Ann Constantine) ‘Bard of Liberty: Iolo Morganwg, Wales and Radical Song’, in United Islands? The Languages of Resistance, ed. Michael Brown, John Kirk, and Andrew Noble (Pickering and Chatto, 2012).

‘Iniquity, terror and survival: Welsh Gothic, 1789-1804’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 35: 1 (2012), 119-33.