Record Nr.

UNINA9910452077203321

Autore

Nord Deborah Epstein <1949->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa


New York, : Columbia University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-231-51033-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/352991497

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Outsiders in literature

Romanies in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.Gypsies were both idealized and reviled by Victorian and early-twentieth-century Britons. Associated with primitive desires, lawlessness, cunning, and sexual excess, Gypsies were also objects of antiquarian, literary, and anthropological interest. As Nord

demonstrates, British writers and artists drew on Gypsy characters and plots to redefine and reconstruct cultural and racial difference, national and personal identity, and the individual's relationship to social and sexual orthodoxies. Gypsies were long associated with pastoral conventions and, in the nineteenth century, came to stand in for the ancient British past. Using myths of switched babies, Gypsy kidnappings, and the Gypsies' murky origins, authors projected onto Gypsies their own desires to escape convention and their anxieties about the ambiguities of identity. The literary representations that Nord examines have their roots in the interplay between the notion of Gypsies as a separate, often despised race and the psychic or aesthetic desire to dissolve the boundary between English and Gypsy worlds. By the beginning of the twentieth century, she argues, romantic identification with Gypsies had hardened into caricature-a phenomenon reflected in D. H. Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gipsy-and thoroughly obscured the reality of Gypsy life and history.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796269903321

Autore

Rostand Edmond <1868-1918, >

Titolo

Cyrano de Bergerac / / Edmond Rostand

Pubbl/distr/stampa


[Place of publication not identified] : , : Ligaran, , [2015]
©2015

ISBN

2-335-00380-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (386 p.)

Disciplina

848.409

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Couverture; Page de Copyright; Page de titre; Personnages; PREMIER ACTE - Une représentation à l'hôtel de Bourgogne; Scène première; Scène II; Scène III; Scène IV; Scène V; Scène VI; Scène VII; DEUXIÈME ACTE - La rôtisserie des poètes; Scène première; Scène II; Scène III; Scène IV; Scène V; Scène VI; Scène VII; Scène III; Scène IX; Scène X; Scène XI; TROISIÈME ACTE - Le baiser de Roxane; Scène première;

Scène II; Scène III; Scène IV; Scène V; Scène VI; Scène VII; Scène VIII; Scène IX; Scène X; Scène XI; Scène XII; QUATRIÈME ACTE - Les cadets de Gascogne; Scène première; Scène II; Scène III

Scène IVScène V; Scène VI; Scène VII; Scène VIII; Scène IX; Scène X; CINQUIÈME ACTE - La Gazette de Cyrano; Scène première; Scène II; Scène III; Scène IV; Scène V; Scène VI

Sommario/riassunto

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