Rhys Davies: Decoding the Hare

"Published to mark the 100th anniversary of Rhys DaviesÆs birth, this collection contains essays on the major aspects of DaviesÆs life and work, from the literary, social, and national contexts within which he wrote, to issues of gender, sexuality, and race. Assessed is his importance not just as a writer of short stories, as he has long been identified, but also as one of the finest Welsh novelists writing in English."

List of Contributors

vii

Introduction

1

(28)

Meic Stephens

Rhys Davies and his `Turbulent Valley'

29

(11)

Dai Smith

The Epic Rhondda: Romanticism and Realism in the Rhondda Trilogy

40

(14)

Michael J. Dixon

`Not a Place for Me': Rhys Davies's Fiction and the Coal Industry

54

(17)

Stephen Knight

`The Memory of Lost Countries': Rhys Davies's Wales

71

(16)

Tony Brown

Withered Roots: Ideas of Race in the Writings of Rhys Davies and D. H. Lawrence

87

(17)

Daniel Williams

Rhys Davies as Autobiographer: Hare or Houdini?

104

(34)

Barbara Prys-Williams

`One Rainy Sunday Afternoon'

138

(9)

D. A. Callard

`I Wish I Had a Trumpet': Rhys Davies and the Creative Impulse

147

(15)

J. Lawrence Mitchell

Eccentricity and Lawlessness in Rhys Davies's Short Fiction

162

(13)

Linden Peach

Lawrentianisms: Rhys Davies and D. H. Lawrence

175

(16)

Jeff Wallace

`Love... and the Need of it': Three Novels by Rhys Davies

191

(14)

James A. Davies

The Masquerade of Gender in the Stories of Rhys Davies

205

(11)

Katie Gramich

Daughters of Darkness: Rhys Davies's Revenge Tragedies

216

(15)

Jane Aaron

The Black Venus: Atavistic Sexualities

231

(13)

Kirsti Bohata

`Unspeakable Rites': Writing the Unspeakable in Rhys Davies

244

(16)

Simon Baker

Joanna Furber

`Never Seek to Tell thy Love': Rhys Davies's Fiction

260

(23)

M. Wynn Thomas

Rhys Davies: A Bibliography

283

(4)

Meic Stephens

Index

287

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Rhys Davies: Decoding the Hare

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