Rhys Davies: Decoding the Hare

Meic Stephens is a freelance author, editor and journalist. Among the reference works he has compiled and edited are The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales (1986) and A Dictionary of Literary Quotations (1990), and he is also an editor of the Writers of Wales series.

'...this volume offers a rich variety of critical approaches to the work a writer of undeniable importance to Anglo-Welsh literature...an engaging and lively critical contribution to Welsh writing in English.' New Welsh Review

• Meic Stephens [Glamorgan] Introduction Dai Smith [BBC Wales] Rhys Davies and his 'Turbulent Valley' Michael J. Dixon [postgrad, Glamorgan] The Epic Rhondda: Romanticism and Realism in the Rhondda Trilogy Stephen Knight [Professor of English, Cardiff] 'Not a Place for Me': Rhys Davies's Fiction and the Coal Industry Tony Brown [Bangor] 'The Memory of Lost Countries': Rhys Davies's Wales Daniel Williams [Swansea] Withered Roots: Ideas of Race in the Work of Rhys Davies and D. H. Lawrence Barbara Prys-Williams [postgrad, Swansea] Rhys Davies as Autobiographer: Hare or Houdini? D. A. Callard [-] 'One rainy Sunday afternoon...' J. Lawrence Mitchell [Professor of English, Texas A&M University] 'I wish I had a Trumpet': Rhys Davies and the Creative Impulse Linden Peach [Professor of English, Loughborough University] Eccentricity and Lawlessness in the Stories of Rhys Davies Jeff Wallace [Glamorgan] Lawrentianisms: Rhys Davies and D. H. Lawrence James A. Davies [formerly Swansea] 'Love and the need of it': Three Novels Katie Gramich [Open University] The Masquerade of Gender in the Stories of Rhys Davies Jane Aaron [Professor of English, Glamorgan] Daughters of Darkness: Rhys Davies's Revenge Tragedies Kirsti Bohata [postgrad, Swansea] The Black Venus Simon Baker and Joanna Furber [Swansea, SB is Lecturer, JF is postgrad] 'Unspeakable Rites': Writing the Unspeakable M. Wynn Thomas [Professor of English, Swansea] 'Never seek to tell thy love': Rhys Davies's Fiction