As well as analysing literature relating to the relationship between people and the environment, ecocriticism has a political aim, which is to deepen our historical understanding of the causes of the current environmental crisis and to strengthen ourselves to resist those who wish to disregard it. In this lecture we will consider the work of some Welsh nineteenth century poets whose lives were transformed by the industrial revolution, and ask if there is a message for us today in their response to the loss of greenery?
Jane Aaron is a Professor Emerita at the School of Humanities at the University of South Wales and the author of Pur fel y Dur: Y Gymraes yn Llên Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg which won the Ellis Griffith Memorial Award in 1999, Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales which won the Roland Mathias Award in 2009, the book Welsh Gothic (2013), and the memoir Cranogwen which won the Book of the Year award in the Creative Nonfiction category in 2024.
There will be light refreshments and drinks after the lecture.
The event is supported by the Learned Society of Wales.
Please register by Monday, 10 November.
This is a Welsh medium event.
Note that this is a Welsh language event.