University of Exeter Press

Cornish Studies Volume 17

    • 232 Pages


    The seventeenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.







    The seventeenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.




    Introduction

    1. Clayscapes: Views of a Working Landscape, from Poetry to Oral History, Shelley Trower

    2. Seeing the Clay Country: The Novels of Jack Clemo, Gemma Goodman

    3. A Sustainable Literature? Ecocriticism, Environment and a New Eden in Cornwall’s China-Clay Mining Region, Alan M. Kent

    4. A ‘Treasured’ Landscape: Snapshots of Prehistoric Life in mid-Cornwall, Adrian Rodd

    5. Historical Development and Sustainable Development, Ronald Perry and Charles Thurlow

    6. Electoral Landscapes: Political Ecology of the Clay Country Since 1885, Garry Tregidga

    7. Sustainable Communities, Innovation, Social Capital and the Inland China Clay Villages, Joanie Willett

    8. Accessing Education in Cornwall: Exploring the Structure/Agency Debate among Potential Students, Kerryn Husk

    9. Jynwethek Ylow Kernewek: The Significance of Cornish Techno Music, Philip Hayward

    10. ‘Arise St Piran’: The Cult of the Saints and the Redefining of Cornwall, Jesse Harasta

    11. ‘This magical Tudor house’: Cotehele and the Concept of Authenticity: A Chronological Review, Graham Busby, Rachel Hunt and Helen Small

    12. Cornish Studies: Sixteen

    Notes on contributors



    Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish & 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 and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (UEP, 2005, paperback 2007), Making Moonta: The Invention of 'Australia's Little Cornwall' (UEP, 2007) and numerous other books on Cornwall and the Cornish.