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1 online resource |
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Manchester Gothic |
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Manchester Gothic (Manchester, England)
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| Contents |
Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Primitive rocks -- 2 Rocks and race -- 3 On the cliff edge of England -- 4 Haunted houses and prehistoric stones -- 5 Living stones and the earth -- 6 Clayscapes -- Conclusion -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
Considers how national fantasy has been constructed through a wide range of narratives that have described rocks and landscape not merely as inert substances but moving living beings |
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Rocks of nation reveals how the imagination of nations and races is grounded in the landscape. In doing so, it makes a striking contribution to theories of nation, offering new insights into how national identity is bound up with materiality. The book provides an in-depth case study of Cornwall and its economy in the wider context of Britain and the rise of nationalist politics, especially in England (UKIP) and Scotland (SNP). <BR><BR>Spanning from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century, it traces the gradual formation of a cultural consciousness of Cornwall as a distinctively rocky nation through a wide range of literatures, including nineteenth-century geological journals and folklore, Gothic and detective fiction, modernist and romance novels, travel narratives, 'New Age' eco-spiritualism and Cornish nationalist writings. <i>Rocks of nation</i> will be of interest to students and academics across the disciplines, from English literature and cultural geography to Celtic studies, history and politics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 29, 2015) |
| Subject |
Literature and society -- England -- Cornwall (County)
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Politics and literature -- England -- Cornwall (County)
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Nationalism -- England -- Cornwall (County)
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English literature -- Celtic influences.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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English literature -- Celtic influences
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Literature
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Literature and society
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Nationalism
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Politics and literature
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| SUBJECT |
Cornwall (England : County) -- In literature
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| Subject |
England -- Cornwall (County)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781784996819 |
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1784996815 |
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9781784996192 |
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178499619X |
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