Cornish Studies Volume 19

Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish & 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 and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (UEP, 2005, paperback 2007), Making Moonta: The Invention of ‘Australia’s Little Cornwall’ (UEP, 2007), John Betjeman and Cornwall: 'The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist' (UEP, 2010)and numerous other books on Cornwall and the Cornish.

• Introduction1. A Duchy officer and a gentleman: The career connections of Avery Cornburgh (d.1487), R. E. Stansfield2. Some Cornish plurals, Nicholas Williams3. Xians via Yish? Language attitudes and cultural identities on Britain’s Celtic periphery, Stuart Dunmore4. ‘I am answerable for the Cornish’: The genesis of the Revd Robert Williams’s Lexicon-Cornu Britannicum and the significance of the Peniarth Library’s Hengwrt Manuscripts in his later research, Derek R. Williams5. Charles Rogers’s ‘Vocabulary of the Cornish Language’, the Rylands Vocabulary, and gatherers of pre-‘Revival’ fragments, Sharon Lowenna6. A ‘mystic message to the world’: Henry Jenner, W. Y. Evans-Wentz and the fairy-faith in ‘Celtic’ Cornwall, Carl Phillips Henry Jenner and the British Museum, David Everett7. From a north Cornish pulpit: The sermon notes of Cyril Leslie-Jones, 1911–1919, Jonathan Howlett8. Desperate? Destitute? Deserted? Questioning perceptions of miners’ wives in Cornwall during the great migration, 1851–1891, Lesley Trotter9. Cousins Jack and Jenny in Phyllis Somerville’s Not Only in Stone,  Charlotte White10. Review Article: Diversity and Complexity in Twentieth-century Cornish Identities, Philip Payton

‘Time and place are central to many of the issues facing humanity, and how we contemplate the future. Cornish Studies thus provides much more than insight into the past and the regional, informing understanding that extends far beyond’.( Professor Kevin J. Gaston,  Director, Environment & Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus)   ‘A staple of the academic year the latest volume of Cornish Studies (Second Series) does not disappoint in its on-going deconstruction of some of the myths of Cornish culture. This is a fine collection of essays with some interesting emergent voices in the field.’(Cornish Banner, 147, February 2012)