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Rocks of nation: The imagination of Celtic Cornwall
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Considers how national fantasy has been constructed through a wide range of narratives that have described rocks and landscape not merely as inert substances but moving living beings.
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Shelley Trower
Shelley Trower is Lecturer in English at the University of Roehampton
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