Author: George BorrowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Borrow: Selections with Essays by Richard Ford, Leslie Stephen & George Saintsbury
Author: George BorrowBorrow: Selections with Essays by Richard Ford, Leslie Stephen & George Saintsbury
Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930
Author: Deborah Epstein NordPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231510330
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English
Author: Henry Watson FowlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
The Journal of Education
Author: MLN.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
Revival: A Last Vintage (1950)
Author: George Edward Bateman SaintsburyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351349104
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Editors of the Saintsbury Memorial Volume have been encouraged by the welcome which that book received to make a final gathering of George Saintbury's writings. From a score of different sources they have chosen essays and papers that have lain uncollected, with their themes ranging from Captain Marryat to Erasmus, from Rosetti to Xenephon, from Swinburne to Balzac's early pot boilers. Included is an entrancing study of the literary associations of the city of Bath; and the editors have followed Saintbury's own example by collecting a Scrap Book more than thirty shorter notes and jeux d'esprit on all kinds of subjects: wigs, sensation novelists, Drummond and Ben Jonson, George Sand, compulsory Greek at Oxford, Shakespeare and Welsh, Laurence Sterne tittle-tattle, Marcel Proust, and much else in true Saintsburian vein.
The Periodical
Author: The Year's Work in English Studies
Author: English AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
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