Cornish Studies Volume 8

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-85989-682-5
Verlag: University of Exeter Press - IPSUK

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Payton, Philip, Prof.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Abrams, Lynn

Bradley, Katherine

Busby, Graham

Cockerham, Paul

Crago, Treve

Deacon, Bernard

Hale, Amy

Hambly, Zoë

Mindenhall, Dorothy

Payton, Philip, Prof.

Perry, Ronald

Schwartz, Sharron P.

Tregidga, Garry

Trezise, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. "On my grave a marble stone" - early modern Cornish memorialization, Paul Cockerham

3. Choosing the group - 19th-century non-mining Cornish in British Columbia, Dorothy Mindenhall

4. Celt and Saxon - stereotypes and counter-stereotypes of the late Victorian period, Simon Trezise

5. "No place for a woman" - gender at work in Cornwall's metalliferous mining industry, Sharron P. Schwartz

6. "The best men in Shetland" - woman, gender and place in peripheral communities, Lyn Abrams

7. "The breadwinners" - gender, locality and diversity in late Victorian and Edwardian Cornwall, Ronald Perry

8. "If the vote is good for Jack, why not for Jill" - the Women's Suffrage Movement in Cornwall 1970-1914, Katherine Bradley

9. "Play the game as men play it" - women in Cornish politics 1918-1922, Treve Crago

10. "Bodmin man" - Peter Bessell and the Liberal revival, Garry Tregidga

11. "In the eye of the sun" - the Cornish Gorseth and esoteric druidry, Amy Hale

12. Literary tourism and the Daphne du Maurier festival, Graham Busby and Zoe Hambly

13. In search of the "missing turn" - the spatial dimension and Cornish studues, Bernard Deacon

Review Article

13. Breaking the Chains and Forging New Links, Bernard Deacon

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Payton, Philip, Prof.
Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and is the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.

He has written extensively on Cornish topics, and recent books include A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (2005), Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia’s Little Cornwall (2007), John Betjeman and Cornwall: ‘The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist’ (2010), and (edited with Alston Kennerley and Helen Doe), The Maritime History of Cornwall (2014). He has recently been awarded South Australian Historian of the Year 2017 by the History Council of South Australia.

Payton, Philip, Prof.
Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and is the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.

He has written extensively on Cornish topics, and recent books include A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (2005), Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia’s Little Cornwall (2007), John Betjeman and Cornwall: ‘The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist’ (2010), and (edited with Alston Kennerley and Helen Doe), The Maritime History of Cornwall (2014). He has recently been awarded South Australian Historian of the Year 2017 by the History Council of South Australia.

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.