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

di Simon Young (Autore)

University of Exeter Press, 2022

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.

• Autore: Simon Young
• Editore: University of Exeter Press
• Collana: Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 306 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 631 gr.
• EAN: 9781905816934

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