Mysticism, myth and Celtic identity

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Mysticism, myth and Celtic identity

edited by Marion Gibson, Shelley Trower and Garry Tregidga

Routledge, 2013

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  • : pbk

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Mysticism myth and Celtic identity

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 the contemporary, with a particular emphasis on the period from the eighteenth century to the present. The subject matter includes notions of ancient deities, Druids, Celticity, the archaeological remains of pagan religions, traditional folk tales, racial and religious myths and ethnic politics, and the different types of returns and hauntings that can recycle these ideas in culture. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the scholarship in Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity is mainly literary but also geographical and historical and draws on religious studies, politics and the social sciences. Thus the collection offers a stimulatingly broad number of new viewpoints on a matter of great topical relevance: national identity and the politicization of its myths.

目次

Introduction. Part 1: Prehistory and Paganism 1. Druids in Modern British Fiction 2. Old Deities, New Worlds 3. Uncovering the Deepest Layers of the British Past, 1850-1914 4. "Dreams of Celtic Kings" 5. "The Truth against the World" Part 2: Gothic, Romance and Landscape 6. 'Confined to a Living Grave' 7. Fingal in the West Country 8. Geological Folklore 9. Celtic Cultural Politics 10. Spirited Away Part 3: Memory, Myth and Politics 11. Cornish Crusaders and Barbary Captives 12. Re-enacting Scottish History in Europe 13. Reconstructing West Wales 14. From Apocalyptic Paranoia to the Mythic Nation 15. Albion's Spectre

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