Cornish Studies Volume 20 edited by Philip Payton and contributions by Alan M. Kent, Sharon ISBN: Lowenna, Garry Tregidga, Lesley Trotter, John Ault, Emma 9780859898744 (pb) Bennett, Allen Buckley, Merv Davey, Gemma Goodman, Cheryl Hayden, Ronald M. James and Neil Kennedy PRICE: $33.00 (pb) DESCRIPTION: The twentieth volume in the acclaimed paperback series ...the only county series that can PUBLICATION DATE: legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. Cornish Studies has consistently - 01 October 2012 (pb) and successfully - sought to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall. Publication BINDING: of Cornish Studies: Twenty marks two decades of this internationally acclaimed paperback series Paperback The volume discusses Cornish medieval and early modern studies, examines the efforts of Cornish language revivalists past and present, and considers the relation between Cornish folk tradition and SIZE: Cornish identity, as well as evaluating Cornish literature in Cornwall and Australia, investigating the 5 x9 distinctive features of Cornish politics in the first half of the twentieth century, analysing the separation of wives and husbands during Cornwall's 'Great Emigration, and reviewing Cornish mine PAGES: accidents. 272 'For the past twenty years, Cornish Studies has stood at the very heart of the ongoing scholarly PUBLISHER: conversation over what it means - and what is has meant - to be Cornish. Interdisciplinary and University of Exeter Press internationalist in its approach, the series adopts a wide variety of perspectives in order to set the people of Cornwall - and the wider Cornish diaspora - in a truly global context'. IMPRINT: University of Exeter Press TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction SERIES: Cornish Studies 1. Bernard Deacon, Philip Payton READER INTERESTS: 2. Mending the gap in the Medieval, Modern and Post-modern in New Cornish Studies: 'Celtic' Cultural Studies 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, <em>Ronald </em>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 <em>Notes on Contributors</em> CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIES: <strong>Philip Payton</strong> 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 <em>A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot </em>(UEP, 2005, paperback 2007), <em>Making Moonta: The Invention of 'Australia's Little Cornwall'</em> (UEP, 2007), <em>John Betjeman and Cornwall: 'The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist' </em>(UEP, 2010), <em>Regional Australia and the Great War: 'The Boys from Old Kio'</em>,and numerous other books on Cornwall and the Cornish. .