Title: Gypsies and the British imagination, 1807-1930
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.
Subjects: English literature, History and criticism, Outsiders in literature, Romanies in literature, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, English literature, history and criticism, 20th century
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century