Gypsies and the British imagination, 1807-1930
By: Deborah Epstein Nord.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Outsiders in literature; Romanies in literature
Description: "Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Deborah Epstein Nord traces various representations of Gypsies in the works of such well-known British authors John Clare, Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, and D.H. Lawrence. Nord also exhumes lesser-known literary, ethnographic, and historical texts, exploring the histories of nomadic writer George Borrow, the Gypsy Lore Society, Dora Yates, and other rarely examined figures and institutions."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A mingled race" : Walter Scott's Gypsies; title: Vagrant and poet : the Gypsy and the "Strange disease of modern life"; title: In the beginning was the word : George Borrow's Romany picaresque; title: "Marks of race" : the impossible Gypsy in George Eliot; title: "The last romance"  scholarship and nostalgia in the Gypsy Lore Society; title: The phantom Gypsy : invisibility, writing, and history.