Gypsies & the British imagination, 1807-1930
Title:
Gypsies & the British imagination, 1807-1930
Author:
Nord, Deborah Epstein, 1949-
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Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.
Physical Description:
xii, 221 p. : ill.
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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