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Assessing the full range of Borrow's published texts, as well as his remarkable impact on a diverse range of Edwardian and modernist cultural producers in the half-century following his death, this book explores the context, origins and development of Borrow's imaginative enterprise. This project attests to Borrow's pivotal influence on verbal, visual and performative representations of the 'gypsy' between 1840 and 1945 when, as David Cressy observes, 'more was written in English' about the Romany than 'in any previous period of history'. It also uncovers how Borrow's stylistic idiosyncrasies and formal innovations extend across and between genres, and further into the transitional gaps between life-writing and land-writing and how his books, which were once runaway bestsellers, became side-lined and mere footnotes in the Victorian canon.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction. A Blast From the Past
2. The Bible in Spain. An Unlikely Victorian Bestseller
3. 'The Last Genuine Example of the Picturesque?' Lavengro and The Romany Rye
4. Wild Wales: Borrow the Bad Englishman
5. A New Romanticism, or Borrowed Scenes?
6. Afterword: A Genre of his Own?
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Index
