Welsh Writing from the American Civil War

Llyfr sy'n asesu ymateb awduron o blith Cymry-America i'r Rhyfel Cartref. Mae'r astudiaeth yn ystyried llythyron a dyddiaduron milwyr a phobl gyffredin a fu'n byw yn ystod y rhyfel, ynghyd â cherddi a llên awduron mwy 'proffesiynol'. Edrychir hefyd ar y modd yr effeithiodd y Rhyfel Cartref ar hunaniaeth genedlaethol Cymry-America, a'u hagwedd at y Diddymiad, ayb.

"... of interest both to historians and to literary critics. It comprehensively and thoroughly documents the reaction of Welsh-speaking Welsh-Americans to the looming crisis over slavery and disunion and to the War itself, using both printed and ms. sources. It also touches upon the more "belles lettres" dimension of this reaction, sometimes in ways that refer back to the poetic traditions of Wales, and sometimes in ways that interconnect with contemporary Anglophone literary responses (e.g., in the case of Harriet Beecher Stowe). ... very well written, which would suggest that it might reach out to some of the huge trans-Atlantic audience for popular Civil War history." K. P. Van Anglen, Boston University