University of Exeter Press
Cornish Studies Volume 14
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- 288 Pages
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’
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.
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
