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A sophisticated, subtle, and highly erudite analysis. -- Panikos Panayi Victorian Studies Extensive descriptive passages... Nuanced and perceptive glimpses into the texts and into the lives, character, nature, and motives of the writers themselves. Journal of British Studies A welcome addition to Romani and literary studies. -- Marianne Zwicker H-Ideas

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Children of Hagar 1. "A Mingled Race": Walter Scott's Gypsies 2. Vagrant and Poet: The Gypsy and the "Strange Disease of Modern Life" 3. In the Beginning Was the Word: George Borrow's Romany Picaresque 4. "Marks of Race": The Impossible Gypsy in George Eliot 5. "The Last Romance": Scholarship and Nostalgia in the Gypsy Lore Society 6. The Phantom Gypsy: Invisibility, Writing, and History Notes Bibliography Index

Gypsies and the British Imagination 18071930

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/28/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780231137058, 978-0231137058
      ISBN10: 0231137052

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      A sophisticated, subtle, and highly erudite analysis. -- Panikos Panayi Victorian Studies Extensive descriptive passages... Nuanced and perceptive glimpses into the texts and into the lives, character, nature, and motives of the writers themselves. Journal of British Studies A welcome addition to Romani and literary studies. -- Marianne Zwicker H-Ideas

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Children of Hagar 1. "A Mingled Race": Walter Scott's Gypsies 2. Vagrant and Poet: The Gypsy and the "Strange Disease of Modern Life" 3. In the Beginning Was the Word: George Borrow's Romany Picaresque 4. "Marks of Race": The Impossible Gypsy in George Eliot 5. "The Last Romance": Scholarship and Nostalgia in the Gypsy Lore Society 6. The Phantom Gypsy: Invisibility, Writing, and History Notes Bibliography Index

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