ISBN:
9780415628693
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (245 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity
DDC:
398.20941
Keywords:
Literature and myth - Great Britain
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradition and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative and fiction to shape identity, with particular reference to the British and Celtic contexts. The authors consider how aspects of the past are reinterpreted or reimagined in a variety of ways to give coherence to desired national groupings, or groups aspiring to nationhood and its 'defence'. The coverage is unusually broad in its historical sweep, dealing with work from prehistory to t
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; MYSTICISM, MYTH AND CELTIC IDENTITY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Mysticism, myth and Celtic identity; PART I Prehistory and paganism; 1 Druids in modern British fiction: the unacceptable face of Celticism; 2 Old deities, new worlds: the return of the gods in fiction; 3 Uncovering the deepest layers of the British past, 1850-1914; 4 Dreams of Celtic kings: Victorian prehistory and the notion of 'Celtic'; 5 'The truth against the world': spectrality and the mystic past in late twentieth-century Cornwall; PART II Gothic, romance and landscape
Description / Table of Contents:
6 'Confined to a living grave': Welsh poetry, Gothic and the French Revolution7 Fingal in the West Country: the poems of Ossian and cultural myth-making in the South West of England, 1770-1800; 8 Geological folklore: Robert Hunt and the industrial, aesthetic and racial composition of 'Celtic' Cornwall; 9 Celtic cultural politics: monuments and mortality in nineteenth-century Brittany; 10 Spirited away: Highland touring, 'Toctor Shonson' and the hauntings of Celtism; PART III Memory, myth and politics; 11 Cornish crusaders and Barbary captives: returns and transformations
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Re-enacting Scottish history in Europe13 Reconstructing West Wales: Welsh representations and cultural memories of Cornwall; 14 From apocalyptic paranoia to the mythic nation: political extremity and myths of origin in the neo-fascist milieu; 15 Albion's spectre: building the new Jerusalem; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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