Cornish Gothic, 1830-1913 / Joan Passey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Passey, Joan, author.

Series:

Gothic literary studies.

Gothic Literary Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Welsh fiction--History and criticism.

Welsh fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2023]

Summary:

In the nineteenth century, Cornwall was seen as a foreign nation on England's doorstep and imagined as a haunted place, full of ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and legends. This book explores how Gothic authors drew on this to create a Cornish Gothic tradition.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Corpses, Coasts and Carriages

Cornwall: A Brief Introduction

The Cornish Gothic

The Regional Gothic

Cornish Gothic Criticism

Part I: Landscapes and Legends: Preserving and Confronting the Past

1 'The dead lay buried and yet unburied': Minescapes and the Subterranean World

The Subterranean Gothic

Wheal Darkness by H. D. Lowry

2 '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'

3 'Hear the most curious stories': Folklore, Antiquarianism and Gothic Rewritings

In the Roar of the Sea by Sabine Baring-Gould

Part II: Travel and Tourism: Cornish Identity and Encounters with Modernity

4 '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'

5 'The poet gives all his votes to us': King Arthur and Arthurian Tourism in Tintagel

Nineteenth-Century Medievalism

Arthur in Cornwall

Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King

Travel Writing

6 'A phantom to proclaim their hoary and solitary age': Cornish Ghosts and Hauntings

Visiting Haunted Cornwall

Economic Spectres

Haunted Shores

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781786839930

1786839938