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The Wandering Fictions of George Borrow: A Literature on the Move 1840-1940

The Wandering Fictions of George Borrow: A Literature on the Move 1840-1940

Radford, Andrew D.

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Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 1399546430
ISBN13: 9781399546430
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Oct 31 2026
Pages: 240
Language: English
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.

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