Folklore and nation in Britain and Ireland

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    • Cheeseman, Matthew
    • Hart, Carina

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Folklore and nation in Britain and Ireland

edited by Matthew Cheeseman and Carina Hart

（Routledge studies in cultural history）

Routledge, 2022

  • : hbk

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "This collection explores folklore and folkloristics within the diverse and contested national discourses of Britain and Ireland, examining their role in shaping the islands' constituent nations from the eighteenth century to our contemporary moment of uncertainty and change. The book is concerned with understanding folklore, particularly through its intersections with the narratives of nation entwined within art, literature, disciplinary practice and lived experience. By following these ideas throughout history into the twenty-first century, the authors show how notions of the folk have inspired and informed varied points from the Brothers Grimm to Brexit. They also examine how folklore has been adapting to the real and imagined changes of recent political events, acquiring newfound global and local rhetorical power. This collection asks why, when and how folklore has been deployed, enacted and considered in the context of national ideologies and ideas of nationhood in Britain and Ireland. Editors C

Contents of Works

  • Grimm ripples : the role of the Grimms' Deutsche Sagen in the collection and creation of national folk narratives in Northern Europe / Terry Gunnell
  • Forest murmurs : wood and wild in the making of England / Jeremy Harte
  • 'The last Earl of Hallamshire': legend, landscape and identity in South Yorkshire / David Clarke
  • Anarchy in the UK : Haddon and the anarchist agenda in the Anglo-Irish folklore movement / Ciarán Walsh
  • 'Powerful and sovereign medicines ... virulent poisons also' : Arthur Machen, occultism, and the Celtic revival / Felix Taylor
  • Visions of English identity : the country dance and Shakespeare-land / Derek Schofield
  • Embodied Englishness in the inter-war Morris revival / Matt Simons
  • A Scottish Volk? folklore, anthropology, race and nationalism in inter-war Scotland / Katie Meheux
  • Photographic surveys of calendar customs : preserving identity in times of change / Andrew Robinson
  • Folklore as McGuffin : British folklore and Margaret Murray in a 1930 crime novel and beyond / Paul Cowdell
  • Et in arcadia ego : British folk horror film and television / Diane A Rodgers
  • Bloody Europe : Brexit and the making of a myth / Tabitha Peterken
  • Folkloric landscapes and the heroic outlaw in Britain and Ireland / Carina Hart
  • 'Our community could start our own traditions' : the commingling of religion, politics, and the folkloresque in a far right groupuscule / Andrew Fergus Wilson
  • Blood, blots and belonging : English heathens their (ab)uses of folklore / Kate Smith
  • The tale of Hanan the Tailor : storytelling in times of change / Shonaleigh Cumbers and Simon Heywood

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Description

This collection explores folklore and folkloristics within the diverse and contested national discourses of Britain and Ireland, examining their role in shaping the islands' constituent nations from the eighteenth century to our contemporary moment of uncertainty and change. This book is concerned with understanding folklore, particularly through its intersections with the narratives of nation entwined within art, literature, disciplinary practice and lived experience. By following these ideas throughout history into the twenty-first century, the authors show how notions of the folk have inspired and informed varied points from the Brothers Grimm to Brexit. They also examine how folklore has been adapting to the real and imagined changes of recent political events, acquiring newfound global and local rhetorical power. This collection asks why, when and how folklore has been deployed, enacted and considered in the context of national ideologies and ideas of nationhood in Britain and Ireland. Editors Cheeseman and Hart have crafted a thoughtful and timely collection, ideal for students and scholars of folklore, history, literature, anthropology, sociology and media studies.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Grimm ripples: the role of the Grimms' Deutsche Sagen in the collection and creation of national folk narratives in Northern Europe 3. Forest murmurs: wood and wild in the making of England 4. 'The Last Earl of Hallamshire': legend, landscape and identity in South Yorkshire 5. Anarchy in the UK: Haddon and the anarchist agenda in the Anglo-Irish folklore movement 6. 'Powerful and sovereign medicines ... virulent poisons also': Arthur Machen, occultism, and the Celtic Revival 7. Visions of English identity: the country dance and Shakespeare-land 8. Embodied Englishness in the inter-war morris revival 9. A Scottish Volk? Folklore, anthropology, race and nationalism in inter-war Scotland 10. Photographic surveys of calendar customs: preserving identity in times of change 11. Folklore as McGuffin: British folklore and Margaret Murray in a 1930 crime novel and beyond 12. Et in arcadia ego: British folk horror film and television 13. Bloody Europe: Brexit and the making of a myth 14. Folkloric landscapes and the heroic outlaw in Britain and Ireland 15. 'Our community could start our own traditions': the commingling of religion, politics, and the folkloresque in a far right groupuscule 16. Blood, blots and belonging: English Heathens their (ab)uses of folklore 17. The Tale of Hanan the Tailor: storytelling in times of change

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