UID:
almafu_9960151486402883
Format:
1 online resource (82 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-78527-908-4
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1-78527-907-6
Series Statement:
Anthem studies in gothic literature
Content:
This book is focused on written and visual culture that is made in, or made about, Cornwall and where there is affinity with Gothic. Cornwall and the Scilly Isles (known as 'Kernow' in the Cornish language) have a special relationship with Gothic, one that has been overlooked in the literature on regional Gothic. In 1998, Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik coined the term 'Cornish Gothic' in relation to the work of Daphne du Maurier. Since then, however, there have been few discussions of the distinctive types of Gothic engendered by cultural and imaginative re-creations of Cornwall or where it has played a generative role within creative practice. The book argues that a persistent imaginative romance with the peninsular has produced a specific and distinctive set of Gothic fictions and creative outputs that mark an exciting new departure in the discussion of regional and media-aware Gothic studies. Offering new insights into the relationships between place and Gothic, this book aims to engender and encourage greater debate through our argument that Cornwall plays a potent role in the landscape of regional Gothic and argues that it needs to be considered more fully as a major catalyst in the Gothic imagination.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Mar 2022).
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Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Chapters Int-c03 -- Introduction -- 1. Dark Romance and Du Maurier's Gothic Kernow -- Du Maurier's Kernow: Regional Gothic and a Romantic Sensibility -- Italy, Cornwall, and My Cousin Rachel -- Land of Mist and Magic -- Adaptations and Afterlives -- 2. Supersensory Gothic Kernow: Magic, Mysticism, and The Esoteric Aesthetics of Emergence -- Ithell Colquhoun's Psychomorphological Cornish Mysteries -- 'Mysterium tremendum et fascinans': Animism and the 'Living Stones' of the Cornish landscape -- Drawing Out the Other: Emergence and Automatism as Gothic Method -- Legacies and Lineages: '… And the Stones Were Awake' -- From the poem 'Minerals of Cornwall, Stones of Cornwall' by Peter Redgrove -- 3. Strange Folk: Folk Horror Cultures, Ritual, and Witching Women -- Rites and Rituals of the Strange Folk -- Archaeology -- Ritual in Theory and Practice -- Transgression and Sensationalism -- Sea Rites and Witching Women -- Conclusion -- End Matter -- Works Cited -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78527-906-8
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781785279072/type/BOOK
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