Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930

by Deborah Epstein Nord

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231137052
• ISBN13: 9780231137058
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher