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Rocks of nation reveals how the imagination of nations and races is grounded in the landscape. In doing so, it makes a striking contribution to theories of nation, offering new insights into how national identity is bound up with materiality. The...
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Rocks of nation reveals how the imagination of nations and races is grounded in the landscape. In doing so, it makes a striking contribution to theories of nation, offering new insights into how national identity is bound up with materiality. The book provides an in-depth case study of Cornwall and its economy in the wider context of Britain and the rise of nationalist politics, especially in England (UKIP) and Scotland (SNP). ; Spanning from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century, it traces the gradual formation of a cultural consciousness of Cornwall as a distinctively rocky nation through a wide range of literatures, including nineteenth-century geological journals and folklore, Gothic and detective fiction, modernist and romance novels, travel narratives, 'New Age' eco-spiritualism and Cornish nationalist writings. Rocks of nation will be of interest to students and academics across the disciplines, from English literature and cultural geography to Celtic studies, history and politics Considers how national fantasy has been constructed through a wide range of narratives that have described rocks and landscape not merely as inert substances but moving living beings Introduction; 1. Primitive rocks: the Geological Societies of London and Cornwall, Humphry Davy and sublime mineral landscapes; 2. Rocks and race: geological folklore and Celtic literature, from Cornwall to Scotland; 3. On the cliff edge of England: trembling rocks in sensation fiction and empire Gothic; 4. Haunted houses and prehistoric stones: savage vibrations in ghost stories and D. H. Lawrence's Kangaroo; 5. Living stones and the earth: dreams of belonging in Cornish nationalist and new age environmental writing; 6. Clay: de-composed granite in Jack Clemo's anti-nationalist writing; Conclusion; Index
