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Cornish Gothic

Cornish Gothic

Hardcover

Series: Gothic Literary Studies

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 1786839911
ISBN13: 9781786839916
Publisher: Univ Of Wales Pr
Published: Aug 3 2023
Pages: 256
Language: English
A literary history of Cornwall in the Victorian imagination.

What comes to mind when we think of Cornwall? Wild coastlines, golden beaches, sooty miners, and Cornish pasties, perhaps. In the nineteenth century, however, it was considered a frightening and threatening space. This book details the discovery of Cornwall in the popular imagination as the Victorians expanded the rail network and how Cornwall was seen as both a foreign nation on England's doorstep and as a haunted place, full of ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and legends. Proposing a distinctly Cornish Gothic tradition, Joan Passey's study offers major new readings of writers such as Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and introduces many Cornish writers to a broader readership.

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