Gypsies & the British imagination, 1807-1930 [electronic resource] / Deborah Epstein Nord.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.Description: xii, 221 p. : ill. ; 25 cmOther title:
  • Gypsies and the British imagination, 1807-1930
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 820.9/352991497 22
LOC classification:
  • PR468.R63 N67 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
"A mingled race" : Walter Scott's Gypsies -- Vagrant and poet : the Gypsy and the "Strange disease of modern life" -- In the beginning was the word : George Borrow's Romany picaresque -- "Marks of race" : the impossible Gypsy in George Eliot -- "The last romance" : scholarship and nostalgia in the Gypsy Lore Society -- The phantom Gypsy : invisibility, writing, and history.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-209) and index.

"A mingled race" : Walter Scott's Gypsies -- Vagrant and poet : the Gypsy and the "Strange disease of modern life" -- In the beginning was the word : George Borrow's Romany picaresque -- "Marks of race" : the impossible Gypsy in George Eliot -- "The last romance" : scholarship and nostalgia in the Gypsy Lore Society -- The phantom Gypsy : invisibility, writing, and history.

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