Winner of the Adult Non-Fiction section of the Holyer an Gof Awards 2006, and Overall Winner of the Holyer an Gof Trophy, this gripping biographical study, published here for the first time in paperback, explores the immensely complicated relationship that existed between A.L. Rowse and his native Cornwall.
Rowse’s books, A Cornish Childhood and Tudor Cornwall, remain in strong demand and are essential reading for the general reader and historian alike, and for all those who know and love Cornwall. By shedding new light on this complex character, Payton invites a greater understanding of the broader issues of Cornish identity as well as assessing Rowse’s highly original contribution to the writing of British and Cornish history.
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List of Illustrations
Preface
1 ‘This Was the Land of My Content’: A Fitting Epitaph?
2 ‘No Wonder I Preferred Life at All Souls’: Escaping a Cornish Childhood
3 ‘You’re No Rowse’: The Mount–Mabel–Montana
4 ‘She Made Me Detest the Very Nature of Women’: A Mother’s Legacy?
5 ‘A Deep Anxiety to Do His Best for Cornwall’: Confronting the Politics of Paralysis
6 ‘Haunted by Cornwall’: A Case of Mutual Rejection?
7 ‘Not Being English, Alas–But Hopelessly Cornish’: Embracing Churchill’s England
8 ‘The Biggest and Most Significant of Cornish Themes’: America and the Great Emigration
9 ‘I Have Been ‘In Love’ with Cornwall All My Life’: Reclaiming the Cornish Past and Future
10 ‘Marooned on My Headland’: Retirement, Isolation and Loneliness
11 ‘All the Island Peoples’: Writing British and Cornish History
Conclusion: ‘What Could I Not Have Done for Cornwall!’
Notes
Further Reading
Lost of the Principle Works by A.L. Rowse
Index
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and is the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.
He has written extensively on Cornish topics, and recent books include A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (2005), Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia’s Little Cornwall (2007), John Betjeman and Cornwall: ‘The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist’ (2010), and (edited with Alston Kennerley and Helen Doe), The Maritime History of Cornwall (2014). He has recently been awarded South Australian Historian of the Year 2017 by the History Council of South Australia.
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