Place, Writing, and Voice in Oral History

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-24
Romanticizing the West Country: or, Hell-Hounds in Hard Cover and Pixies in Print....Pages 25-40
“The Romance of Real Life”: Richard Polwhele’s Representation of the Literary Culture and Language of Cornwall....Pages 41-57
Printed Voices: Dialect and Diversity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Lancashire....Pages 59-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-86
Regional Writing and Oral History, from China Clay to Eden....Pages 87-105
Wivenhoe Landscapes Remembered: From a Working River to Romanticized Nature....Pages 107-126
The Ouse Project: A Case Study of Applied Oral History....Pages 127-147
Witnesses to a Changing Landscape: From the Circumpolar to Central London....Pages 149-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-169
Oral History as Site-Specific Practice: Locating the History of Performance Art in Wales....Pages 171-191
The Historical Hearing Aid: Located Oral History from the Listener’s Perspective....Pages 193-215
Mapping Memories of Displacement: Oral History, Memoryscapes, and Mobile Methodologies....Pages 217-231
Back Matter....Pages 233-235