University of Exeter Press

Cornish Studies Volume 10

    • 336 Pages


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







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




    1. Introduction

    2. The New Cornish Studies: New Discipline or Rhetorically Defined Space? Bernard Deacon

    3. The New Cornish Social Science, Malcolm Williams

    4. On Ideology, Identity and Integrity, Colin H. Williams

    5. Cornish Archaeology at the Millennium, Charles Thomas

    6. Looking Forward to Looking Back: The Study of Medieval History in Cornwall, Allen Buckley

    7. Re-discovering Difference: The Recent Historiography of Early Modern Cornwall, Mark Stoyle

    8. Industrial Celts? Cornish Identity in the Age of Technological Prowess, Philip Payton

    9. Cornish Migration Studies: An Epistemological and Paradigmatic Critique, Sharron P. Schwartz

    10. The Making of Modern Cornwall, 1800-2000: A Geo-Economic Perspective, Ronald Perry

    11. Party, Personality and Place: Researching the Politics of Modern Cornwall, Garry Tregidga

    12. Brian Elvins and Nineteenth-Century Cornish Electoral Politics, Edwin Jaggard

    13. 'In Some State...': A Decade of the Literature and Literary Studies of Cornwall, Alan M. Kent

    14. Cornish Studies and Cornish Culture(s): Evaluations and Directions, Amy Hale

    15. Defining the Spectre: Outlining the Academic Potential of the 'CAVA Movement', Treve Crago

    16. Cornish at its Millennium: An Independent Study of the Language Undertaken in 2000, Kenneth MacKinnon

    17. Fatel Era Ny A Keel? Revived Cornish: Taking Stock, Neil Kennedy

    Notes on Contributors



    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.