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Book SynopsisThe twentieth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Bernard Deacon, Philip Payton
2. Mending the gap in the Medieval, Modern and Post-modern in New Cornish Studies: ‘Celtic’ materialism and the potential of presentism, Alan M. Kent
3. Tristram Winslade – The Desperate Heart of a Catholic in exile, Cheryl Hayden
4. William Gwavas and a Lost Cornish Vocabulary fragment at Trinity College Dublin, Sharon Lowenna
5. Cornish Linguistic Landscape, Neil Kennedy
The Celto-Cornish Movement and Folk Revival: Competing speech communities, Merv Davey
6. ‘The Spectral Bridegroom’: A study in Cornish Folklore, Ronald M. James
7. Rural Geographies: The figure in the landscape in literature of Cornwall, Gemma Goodman
8. Cornish-Australian identity and the novels of Rosanne Hawke, Emma Bennett
9. ‘Husband Abroad’: Quantifying spousal separation associated with emigration in nineteenth-century Cornwall, Lesley Trotter
10. Accidental injury in Cornish Mines, 1900–1950, Allen Buckley
11. ‘A Shrewd Choice’: Isaac Foot and Cornish politics in the General Election of 1910’, Garry Tregidga
12. The Inter-War Cornish By-Elections: Microcosm of ‘Rebellion’?, John Ault
13. Bernard Deacon: Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
