Cornish Studies, Volume 16
Distributed for University of Exeter Press
288 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2008
The latest volume of Cornish Studies includes articles on the possible existence of a Medieval Cornish Bible; the rebellion and Civil War during Cornwall’s early modern period; the Cornish Army; Cornish emigration to Australia; Cornish identity; tourism and representations of Cornwall in travel writing; and social, political, economic, and public health issues affecting Cornwall in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
Contents
Notes on contributors
Introduction
1 The Medieval Cornish Bible: More Evidence
Erik Grigg (University of Manchester)
2 Afterlife of an Army: The Old Cornish Regiments, 1643-44
Mark Stoyle (University of Southampton)
3 From Cornish Miner to Farmer in Nineteenth-Century South Australia: A Case Study
Jan Lokan (McLaren Vale, South Australia)
4 The Relief of Poverty in Cornwall, 1780-1881: From Collateral Support to Respectability
Peter Tremewan (Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter)
5 'A Cornish Voice in the Celtic Orchestra': Robert Morton Nance and the Celtic Congress of 1926
Derek R. Williams (Oswestry, Shropshire)
6 A Preference for Doing Nothing or a Misplaced Focus on Men? Problematic Starting Points for Early Twentieth-Century Public Health Reform in Cornwall
Catherine Mills (University of Exeter) and Pamela Dale (University of Exeter)
7 Cultural Capital in Cornwall: Heritage and the Visitor
Graham Busby (University of Plymouth) and Kevin Meethan (University of Plymouth)
8 Changing Landscapes of Difference: Representations of Cornwall in Travel Writing, 1949-2007
Robert Dickinson (Regional Council of Brittany and Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter)
9 Cornish Identity: Vague Notion or Social Fact?
Joanie Willett (University of Exeter)
10 1549 -- The Rebels Shout Back
Cheryl Hayden (Queensland University of Technology)
Review Article
11 Cornish Cases and Cornish Social History
Bernard Deacon (Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter)
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