The Boggart Sourcebook: Texts and Memories for the Study of the British Supernatural - Couverture rigide

Young, Simon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1905816936 ISBN 13 : 9781905816934

Editeur : University of Exeter Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Simon Young is a British folklore historian, based in Italy. He has a longstanding interest in the study of the supernatural. In 2017 he edited Magical Folk (2017) with Ceri Houlbrook, and has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles in Folk Life, Folklore, Gramarye, Supernatural Studies, Tradition Today and other journals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Exeter Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905816936
• ISBN 13: 9781905816934
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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