This book uses models of 'world literature' to present this 'quintessentially English' writer as a pioneering figure in an Anglophone Welsh literary tradition, a controversial reading that contributes to the present-day reconfiguration of cultural relations between Wales, England, Scotland

Introduction Chapter One World Literary Studies and Britain Chapter Two The Reception of Edward Thomas Chapter Three Welsh Literatures in their Political and Economic Contexts Chapter Four Edward Thomas and the Welsh Cultural Tradition Chapter Five Edward Thomas and English 'as a foreign tongue' Chapter Six Edward Thomas and England's failed locales