Gypsies & the British imagination, 1807-1930 /

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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, W...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nord, Deborah Epstein, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
1800-1999
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Outsiders in literature.
Romanies in literature.
Strangers in literature.
Noncitizens in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Étrangers dans la littérature.
Tsiganes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
Zigeuners.
Bellettrie.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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