LEADER 04420nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910777638703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-51033-0 024 7 $a10.7312/nord13704 035 $a(CKB)1000000000465605 035 $a(EBL)908474 035 $a(OCoLC)818856020 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000166698 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12004639 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000166698 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10168495 035 $a(PQKB)11683905 035 $a(DE-B1597)459172 035 $a(OCoLC)1013942489 035 $a(OCoLC)940693958 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231510332 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908474 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183573 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL690470 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908474 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000465605 100 $a20051122d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGypsies & the British imagination, 1807-1930$b[electronic resource] /$fDeborah Epstein Nord 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (440 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-13705-2 311 $a0-231-13704-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [175]-209) and index. 327 $a"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. 330 $aGypsies 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aOutsiders in literature 606 $aRomanies in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aOutsiders in literature. 615 0$aRomanies in literature. 676 $a820.9/352991497 700 $aNord$b Deborah Epstein$f1949-$01563264 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777638703321 996 $aGypsies & the British imagination, 1807-1930$93831505 997 $aUNINA