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Author Nord, Deborah Epstein, 1949-

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

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.

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Description xii, 221 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-209) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Outsiders in literature.
Romanies in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Gypsies and the British imagination, 1807-1930
ISBN 0231137044 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231510330 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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