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

By: Nord, Deborah Epstein, 1949-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2006Description: xii, 221 p. : illISBN: 0231510330 (electronic bk.)Other title: Gypsies and the British imagination, 1807-1930Subject(s): English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Outsiders in literature | Romanies in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 820.9/352991497 LOC classification: PR468.R63 | N67 2006Online resources: Click to View
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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