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DAVIES, JAMES A.

A critic, born in Llandeilo, Dr James A. Davies grew up in Tonyrefail, Tonypandy and Pontypool. He has been Visiting Professor at Baylor Universuty, Texas, Mellon Research Fellow at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre, University of Texas at Austin and was for many years Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Swansea. He has published extensively on Victorian literature and on Welsh writing in English.

Selected Publications:
John Forster: A Literary Life (Barnes & Noble Books, 1983)
Dylan Thomas’ Places (Christopher Davies, 1987)
The Textual Life of Dickens’ Characters (Palgrave Macmillan, 1989)
Leslie Norris (Writers of Wales Series) (University of Wales Press, 1991)
A Reference Companion to Dylan Thomas (Greenwood, 1998)
Dylan Thomas’ Swansea (Pocket Guides) (University of Wales Press, 2001)

Contributed to:
The Heart of Wales: An Anthology (editor) (Seren, 1993)
A Swansea Anthology (editor) (Seren, 1996)