Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930Columbia University Press, 28.11.2008 - 240 Seiten 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 fascinating histories of nomadic writer George Borrow, the Gypsy Lore Society, Dora Yates, and other rarely examined figures and institutions. |
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Walter Scotts Gypsies | 21 |
The Gypsy and the Strange Disease of Modern Life | 43 |
George Borrows Romany Picaresque | 71 |
The Impossible Gypsy in George Eliot | 99 |
Scholarship and Nostalgia in the Gypsy Lore Society | 125 |
Invisibility Writing and History | 157 |
Notes | 175 |
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211 | |
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Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930 Deborah Epstein Nord,Professor of English Deborah Nord, PH D Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2006 |