Representations of the gypsy in the Romantic period /

In early eighteenth-century texts, the gypsy is frequently figured as an amusing rogue. By the Victorian period, it has begun to take on a nostalgic, romanticized form, abandoning sublimity in favour of the bucolic fantasy propagated by George Borrow and the founding members of the Gypsy Lore Societ...

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Main Author: Houghton-Walker, Sarah (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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