Cornish Studies Volume 14

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’

Contributions by
Graham Busby, Terry Chapman, Merv Davey, Bernard Deacon, Gemma Goodman, Patrick Laviolette, Jim Lewis, Philip Payton, Ronald Perry, Matthew Spriggs, Charles Thurlow, Nicholas Williams and Briar Wood

Introduction, 1; 1 Cornish or Klingon? The Standardization of the Cornish Language Bernard Deacon (Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter), 13; 2 I-Affection in Breton and Cornish Nicholas J.A. Williams (University College Dublin), 24; 3 Additional Thoughts on the Medieval 'Cornish Bible' Matthew Spriggs (Australian National University), 44; 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 (Australian National University), 56; 5 The Literary Anthropology of Mrs Havelock Ellis: An Exploration of the Insider and Outsider Categories Gemma Goodman (University of Warwick), 70; 6 'The Words Are There Before Us': A Reading of Twentieth-century Anglo-Cornish Poems Written by Women Briar Wood (London Metropolitan University), 89; 7 Narratives in the Net: Fiction and Cornish Tourism Graham Busby (University of Plymouth) and Patrick Laviolette (University College London), 142; 8 Cornish Copper Mining 1795-1830: Economy, Structure and Change Jim Lewis (Liskeard, Cornwall), 164. 9 The 1913 China Clay Dispute: 'One and All' or 'One-That's All'? Ronald Perry (Truro, Cornwall) and Charles Thurlow (St Austell, Cornwall), 187; 10 Nationalized Cornwall Terry Chapman (Truro, Cornwall), 204; 11 'Guizing': Ancient Traditions and Modern Sensitivities Merv Davey (Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter), 229; Notes on Contributors, 245.

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.