The fourteenth volume in this acclaimed paperback series includes articles on Cornish mining history, the Cornish and Breton languages compared, the history and revival of Cornish, the poet Charles Causley, and twentieth-century Anglo-Cornish poetry written by women.
The fourteenth volume in this acclaimed paperback series includes articles on Cornish mining history, the Cornish and Breton languages compared, the history and revival of Cornish, the poet Charles Causley, twentieth-century Anglo-Cornish poetry written by women, the novels of Edith Havelock Ellis, the 1913 Cornish china-clay workers' strike, fiction and Cornish tourism, nationalization in Cornwall, and the controversial Padstow 'Darkie Days'
'Cornish Studies is probably the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. As such it consistently provides rich material for the understanding of the British past and present as a whole, and of their impact on the wider world.' (Ronald Hutton, Professor of History, University of Bristol)
'All the articles are well written and contain much in the way of facts rather than generalisations as one would expect from the academic authors but still of much interest to ordinary readers.' (Cornwall FHS Journal, No. 125, September 2007)
Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish and Australian Studies in the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University's Cornwall campus. He is also the author of A.L. Rowse in Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot and numerous other books on Cornwall and the Cornish.
Introduction
1. Cornish or Klingon? The Standardization of the Cornish Language, Bernard Deacon
2. I-Affection in Breton and Cornish Nicholas, J.A. Williams
3. Additional Thoughts on the Medieval 'Cornish Bible', Matthew Spriggs
4. Who was the Duchess of Cornwall in Nicholas Boson's (c. 1660-70) 'The Duchesse of Cornwall's Progresse to see the Land's End...'?, Matthew Spriggs
5. The Literary Anthropology of Mrs Havelock Ellis: An Exploration of the Insider and Outsider Categories, Gemma Goodman
6. 'The Words Are There Before Us': A Reading of Twentieth-century Anglo-Cornish Poems Written by Women, Briar Wood
7. Narratives in the Net: Fiction and Cornish Tourism, Graham Busby and Patrick Laviolette
8. Cornish Copper Mining 1795-1830: Economy, Structure and Change, Jim Lewis
9. The 1913 China Clay Dispute: 'One and All' or 'One-That's All'?, Ronald Perry and Charles Thurlow
10. Nationalized Cornwall, Terry Chapman
11. 'Guizing': Ancient Traditions and Modern Sensitivities, Merv Davey