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Author:   Joan Passey
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
ISBN:  

9781786839916

ISBN 10:   1786839911
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Corpses, Coasts and Carriages Cornwall: A Brief Introduction The Cornish Gothic The Regional Gothic Cornish Gothic Criticism Part One - Landscapes and Legends: Preserving and Confronting the Past Chapter One: ‘The dead lay buried and yet unburied’: Minescapes and the Subterranean World The Subterranean Gothic Wheal Darkness by H. D. Lowry Chapter Two: ‘If there’s got to be wrecks, please send them to we’: Seascapes and Shipwrecks Shipwreck as Gothic Master Trope The Dead Secret and Wreck Media Bram Stoker and ‘The Coming of Abel Behenna’ Chapter Three: ‘Hear the most curious stories’: Folklore, Antiquarianism and Gothic Rewritings In the Roar of the Sea by Sabine Baring-Gould Part Two – Travel and Tourism: Cornish Identity and Encounters with Modernity Chapter Four: 'Out of the sound of the railway whistle': Gothic Travel and the Expansion of the Railway Victorian Gothic Travel Victorian Travel in Cornwall The Jewel of Seven Stars and Gothic Travel into Cornwall ‘Colonel Benyon’s Entanglement’ Chapter Five: ‘The poet gives all his votes to us’: King Arthur and Arthurian Tourism in Tintagel Nineteenth-Century Medievalism Arthur in Cornwall Case Studies Chapter Six: ‘A phantom to proclaim their hoary and solitary age’: Cornish Ghosts and Hauntings Visiting Haunted Cornwall Economic Spectres Haunted Shores Conclusion

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"""Passey's richly researched and highly engaging account of how Cornwall became Gothicised in nineteenth-century writing not only sheds new light on an under-researched corner of Victorian Gothic, but in doing so significantly expands our understanding of the part the region plays in the contemporary cultural imagination."" -- ""Catherine Spooner, professor of literature and culture, Lancaster University"" ""Cornish Gothic is a book that is long overdue. Placing beautiful Cornwall at the heart of the Gothic tradition - no longer a 'footnote', Cornwall is shown to be steeped in the Gothic with seams as deep as its mines. Presenting a wealth of new research with a freshness of approach, Joan Passey evidences Cornish Gothic as distinct and historically fascinating.""-- ""Dr Ruth Heholt, associate professor of dark economies and Gothic literature, Falmouth University"""

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Joan Passey is a lecturer of English at the University of Bristol.

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