The Boggart Sourcebook: texts and memories for the study of the british supernatural
Comprising three parts, this book is a companion volume to The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect. Part one, ‘Boggart Ephemera’, is a selection of about 40,000 words of nineteenth-century boggart writing (particularly material that is difficult to find in libraries). Part two presen...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Exeter
University of Exeter Press
[2020]
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| Dans: | Année: 2022 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Monsters & legendary beings
B Folklore, myths & legends B Myth & legend told as fiction B c 1800 to c 1900 B 20th Century |
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| Résumé: | Comprising three parts, this book is a companion volume to The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect. Part one, ‘Boggart Ephemera’, is a selection of about 40,000 words of nineteenth-century boggart writing (particularly material that is difficult to find in libraries). Part two presents a catalogue of ‘Boggart Names’ (place-names and personal names, totalling over 10,000 words). Finally, part three contains the entire ‘Boggart Census’ – a compendium of ground-breaking grassroots research. This census includes more than a thousand responses, totalling some 80,000 words, from older respondents in the north-west of England, to the question: ‘What is a boggart?’ The Boggart Sourcebook will be of interest to folklorists, historians and dialect scholars. It provides the three corpora on which the innovative monograph, The Boggart, is based |
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| ISBN: | 1905816952 |
| Accès: | Open Access |