Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity

Marion Gibson, Shelley Trower, Garry Tregidga

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English

Routledge
19 November 2012

Museums & museology; British & Irish history; Social & cultural history; Archaeology; Celtic religion & mythology

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.

Edited by: Marion Gibson, Shelley Trower, Garry Tregidga
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 630g
ISBN: 9780415628686
ISBN 10: 0415628687
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 19 November 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"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"

Marion Gibson is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at the University of Exeter, UK. Her publications include Witchcraft Myths in American Culture (2007), Possession, Puritanism and Print: Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy (2006) and Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches (1990). Shelley Trower is a Lecturer at the Department of English at the University of Hull, UK. Her publications include Senses of Vibration (2012) and Place, Writing, and Voice in Oral History (2011). Garry Tregidga is a Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. His publications include Memory, Place and Identity: The Cultural Landscapes of Cornwall (2012) and Mebyon Kernow and the History of Cornish Nationalism, co edited with Dick Cole and Bernard Deacon (2003).

Reviews for Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity

"""Myth Mysticism, and Celtic Identity is an excellent book; it brings together essays from a variety of fields to address historically important and contemporarily relevant questions about the nature of Celtic culture and the continuing status and influence of that culture in the world today."" Professor C.W. Sullivan III, East Carolina University, USA ""Myth Mysticism, and Celtic Identity is an excellent book; it brings together essays from a variety of fields to address historically important and contemporarily relevant questions about the nature of Celtic culture and the continuing status and influence of that culture in the world today."" Professor C.W. Sullivan III, East Carolina University, USA “Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity puts present day celticity to the test of scholarship discussion, challenges worn-out or dangerous perceptions and representations, and resets the perceptions and representations of Celtic identity/ies in a multicultural context. Well built and well informed…Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity is undeniably thought provoking and is a tribute to the vitality of Celtic studies in Britain.” - Yann Bévant, Université Rennes II – UEB"