Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930

Deborah Epstein Nord

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Paper, 240 pages, 20 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-13705-8
$26.00 / £18.00

June, 2006
Cloth, 240 pages, 20 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-13704-1
$75.00 / £52.00

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

Related Subjects

• European and British Literature
• Race and Ethnicity

About the Author

Deborah Epstein Nord is professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb and Walking the Streets: Women, Representation, and the Victorian City.

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