Simon Young

The Boggart Sourcebook (eBook, ePUB)

Texts and Memories for the Study of the British Supernatural

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Exeter Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781905816941
• Artikelnr.: 66682867

Autorenporträt

Simon Young, 'the foremost chronicler of Britain's fairies', teaches at the University of California (Accent), Florence. He has published The Boggart: Folklore, Place-Names, History and Dialect (2023) with UEP and The Nail in the Skull and other Victorian Urban Legends with Mississippi, which was awarded the 2023 Brian McConnell Book Award.