Ghosts, Landscape, Literature

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In early 2008 Dr Shelley Trower was commissioned to write a paper entitled Ghosts, Landscape, Literature that would be delivered on a walk on moors near Haworth, Yorkshire in Spring 2009. The paper developed through much walking, reading and conversation between Dr Trower and the commissioner, Sovay Berriman, and with rambling groups in Yorkshire.

This was a free event; we met at The Old Silent Inn at noon on the 9th May 2009. Those taking part brought a packed lunch and wore walking boots and waterproofs.

Many thanks to Ray and Jackie Wilkes of Bradford Walking, Jenna Holmes of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Steven Paige, Graham Morris, Cornwall Audio Visual Archive (CAVA) and Cornwall College Camborne for all their help in the planning and production of this event.

To request a copy of Dr Trower's paper please contact symbolarchive@sovayberriman.co.uk

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Dr Shelley Trower’s current research interests include myths of haunted locations, regionalism and nationalism. She is especially interested in the materiality of locations – as land and landscape, rocks and soil – in relation to stories of the supernatural. A monograph on this topic is in progress as part of the AHRC funded project ‘Mysticism, Myth, and ‘Celtic’ Nationalism’, led by Marion Gibson and Garry Tregidga, which will include a conference in July 2010.

Other research projects include a historical and cultural examination of vibration from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Publications include Vibratory Movements, a special issue of the journal The Senses and Society 3 (2008); ‘Nerves, Vibration, and the Aeolian Harp’, an article in Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 53 (forthcoming May 2009); and ‘”Nerve-Vibration”: Therapeutic Technologies in the 1880s and 1890s’, an essay in Neurology and Modernity, edited by Laura Salisbury and Andrew Shail (forthcoming, 2009). Trower has recently begun work on a monograph entitled Senses of Vibration: A History of the Pleasure and Pain of Sound, to be published by Continuum.

As an oral historian Trower worked with the Cornish Audio Visual Archive from 2006-7 and for the Rescorla Project, an HLF funded community project from 2007-8. With Samantha Rayne a current University of Exeter PhD student Shelley is conducting a series of oral history interviews that explore perceptions of Cornwall as ‘Celtic’, and as haunted.

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