University of Exeter Press

Cornish Studies Volume 7

    • 256 Pages

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

    The seventh 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. In Defence of Customary Rights: Labouring Women's Experience of Industrialization in Cornwall, c1750-1870, Sharron P. Schwartz

    3. An Investigation into Migration Patterns for the Parish of Zennor in Cornwall during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century, William A. Morris

    4. The Lemon Family Interest in Cornish Politics, Brian Elvins

    5. Socialism and the Old Left: The Labour Party in Cornwall during the Inter-War Period, Garry Tregidga

    6. The Changing Face of Celtic Tourism in Cornwall, 1875-1975, Ronald Perry

    7. An Iconography of Landscape Images in Cornish Art and Prose, Patrick Laviolette

    8. Cornish Identity and Landscape in the Work of Arthur Caddick, Catherine Brace

    9. A Poetry of Dark Sounds: The Manuscripts of Charles Causley, John Hurst

    10. Maximilla, the Cornish Montanist: The Final Scenes of Origo Mundi, Jim Hall

    11. Reconstructive Phonology and Contrastive Lexicology: Problems with the Gerlyver Kernewek Kemmyn, Jon Mills

    12. 'Saint' in Cornish, N.J.A. Williams

    Review Article

    13. 'An Event of Great Signicance' [sic]: A Review of George's Gerlyver Kres, Michael Everson

    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.