Cornish Studies 19
Distributed for University of Exeter Press
241 pages
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10 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 2011
The nineteenth volume in this acclaimed series furthers the mission to investigate and elucidate the nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.
“Cornish Studies . . . consistently provides rich material for the understanding of the British past and present as a whole, and of their impact on the wider world.”—Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1. A Duchy officer and a gentleman: The career connections of Avery Cornburgh (d.1847)
R. E. Stansfield (University of Lancaster)
2. Some Cornish plurals
Nicholas Williams (University College Dublin)
3. Xians via Yish? Language attitudes and cultural identities on Brtain’s Celtic periphery
Stuart Dunmore (University of Edinburgh)
4. ‘I am answerable for the Cornish’: The genesis of Rev. Robert Williams’s Lexicon-Cornu Britannicum and the significance of the Peniarth Library’s Hengwrt Manuscripts in his later research
Derek R. Williams (Oswestry, Shropshire)
5. Charles Rogers’s ‘Vocabulary of the Cornish Language’, the Rylands Vocabulary, and the gatherers of pre-‘Revival’ fragments
Sharon Lowenna (Falmouth, Cornwall)
6. A ‘mystic message to the world’: Henry Jenner, W. Y. Evans-Wentz and the fairy-faith in ‘Celtic’ Cornwall
Carl Phillips (University of Nottingham)
7. Henry Jenner and the British Museum
David Everett (Camborne, Cornwall)
8. From a North Cornish pulpit: The sermon notes of Cyril Leslie-Jones, 1911–1919
Jonathan Howlett (Stirling, Scotland)
9. Desperate? Destitute? Deserted? Questioning perceptions of miners’ wives in Cornwall during the great emigration, 1851–1891
Lesley Trotter (Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter)
10. Cousins Jack and Jenny in Phyllis Somerville’s Not Only in Stone
Charlotte White (University of York)
11. Review Article: Diversity and Complexity in twentieth-century Cornish Identities
Philip Payton (Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter)
Introduction
1. A Duchy officer and a gentleman: The career connections of Avery Cornburgh (d.1847)
R. E. Stansfield (University of Lancaster)
2. Some Cornish plurals
Nicholas Williams (University College Dublin)
3. Xians via Yish? Language attitudes and cultural identities on Brtain’s Celtic periphery
Stuart Dunmore (University of Edinburgh)
4. ‘I am answerable for the Cornish’: The genesis of Rev. Robert Williams’s Lexicon-Cornu Britannicum and the significance of the Peniarth Library’s Hengwrt Manuscripts in his later research
Derek R. Williams (Oswestry, Shropshire)
5. Charles Rogers’s ‘Vocabulary of the Cornish Language’, the Rylands Vocabulary, and the gatherers of pre-‘Revival’ fragments
Sharon Lowenna (Falmouth, Cornwall)
6. A ‘mystic message to the world’: Henry Jenner, W. Y. Evans-Wentz and the fairy-faith in ‘Celtic’ Cornwall
Carl Phillips (University of Nottingham)
7. Henry Jenner and the British Museum
David Everett (Camborne, Cornwall)
8. From a North Cornish pulpit: The sermon notes of Cyril Leslie-Jones, 1911–1919
Jonathan Howlett (Stirling, Scotland)
9. Desperate? Destitute? Deserted? Questioning perceptions of miners’ wives in Cornwall during the great emigration, 1851–1891
Lesley Trotter (Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter)
10. Cousins Jack and Jenny in Phyllis Somerville’s Not Only in Stone
Charlotte White (University of York)
11. Review Article: Diversity and Complexity in twentieth-century Cornish Identities
Philip Payton (Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter)
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