Cornish Studies Volume 11: (Cornish Studies)

This publication marks the development of Cornish Studies as an area of academic activity. The emergence of a "new" Cornish Studies has sought to engage with major scholarly debates such as those surrounding "Britishness", "Celticity", identity, gender, the politics of the periphery, language revival, and ethnicity and emigration. These interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to studying Cornwall and the Cornish allow "Cornish Studies" to escape the narrow confines of "English local history" to embrace what have been termed the "new Cornish historiography" and the "new Cornish social science". "Cornish Studies" has become a showcase for the best Cornish work as well as placing consideration of Cornwall and the Cornish very firmly within the wider context of the "Atlantic Archipelago".

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction 2. 'I was before my time, caught betwixt and between': A.L. Rowse and the Writing of British and Cornish History, Philip Payton 3. A Cornish Assembly? Prospects for Devolution in the Duchy, Mark Sandford 4. Cornwall's Newspaper War: The Political Rivalry Between the Royal Cornwall Gazette and the West Briton-Part Two 1832-1855, Brian Elvins 5. The Response in Cornwall to the Outbreak of the First World War, Stuart Dalley 6. Screening Kernow: Authenticity, Heritage and the Representation of Cornwall in Film and Television, 1913-2003, Alan M. Kent 7. Cornwall's Visual Cultures in Perspective, Patrick Laviolette 8. 'A True Cornish Treasure': Gunwalloe and the Cornish Church as Visitor Attraction, Graham Busby 9. Celtic Revival and the Anglican Church in Cornwall, 1870-1930, David Everett 10. Truro: Diocese and City, John Beckett and David Windsor 11. Where Cornish was Spoken and When: A Provisional Synthesis, Matthew Spriggs 12. On the Track of Cornish in a Bilingual Country, Julyan Holmes 13. Sacrament an Alter: A Tudor Cornish Patristic Catena, D.H. Frost 14. The Medieval 'Cornish Bible', Malte W. Tschirschky Review Article 15. Propaganda and the Tudor State or Propaganda of the Tudor Historians? Bernard Deacon

About the Author :
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.

Review :
'Cornish Studies is now a well established and highly regarded series. It inevitably focuses on Cornwall but adds an additional intellectual perspective which few local or regional journal publications possess by adopting fascinating interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to many of the themes which are considered. This lends a freshness and vitality.' (Professor Thomas M Devine, Director, Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen) 'Cornish Studies provides a fresh, accessible and illuminating insight into the many-sided history and culture of Cornwall. The interdisciplinary and comparative approach encouraged by the editor, Philip Payton, has proved particularly rewarding and has deepened our understanding of Celtic societies in general.' (Professor Geraint II. Jenkins, Director of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth) 'Cornish Studies is a wide-ranging and stimulating series. The topics which it covers relate primarily to the development of Cornish culture and society, past and present, but they are often of relevance far beyond Cornwall. It is meticulously edited to a very high standard, and beautifully produced. Its contents and format make it a most attractive and useful contribution to knowledge, accessible to the general reader as well as to the academic.' (Donald E. Meek, Professor of Celtic, University of Aberdeen)