Cornish Studies 5

by Payton, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780859895514
• ISBN10: 0859895513
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Exeter Pr

Summary

The fifth volume in this acclaimed paperback series covers a wide range of topics, including Celtic Cornwall, Cornish politics, the Cornish economy, Cornish genetics, constructions of language and race in contemporary Cornwall, Cornish rugby, and education in Cornwall.Contributions by Rob Burton , Dick Cole , Bernard Deacon , Amy Hale , F. L. Harris , David Harvey , Lynette Olson , Philip Payton , Ronald Perry , F, Roff Rayner , Andy Seward and Garry Tregidga

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction Paul Cockerham

'On My Grave a Marble Stone': Early Modern Cornish Memoralization

Choosing the Group: Nineteenth-century non-mining Cornish in British Columbia

Celt and Saxon: Stereotypes and Counter-stereotypes of the Late Victorian Period

'No Place for a Woman': Gender at Work in Cornwall's Metalliferous Mining Industry

'The Best Men in Shetland': Women, Gender and Place in Peripheral Communities

'The Breadwinners': Gender, Locality and Diversity in Late Victorian and Edwardian

'if the Vote is Good for Jack, Why Not for Jill?': The Women's Suffrage Movement in Cornwall 1870-1914

'Play the Game as Men Play It': Women in Cornish Politics 1918-1922

'Bodmin Man': Peter Bessell and the Liberal Revival

'In the Eye of the Sun': The Cornish Gorseth and Esoteric Druidry

Literary Tourism and the Daphne du Maurier Festival

In Search of the 'Missing Turn': The Spatial Dimension and Cornish Studies

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