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9783825360832 | Universitaetsverlag Winter, June 1, 2013, cover price $58.00
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9780820343235 | Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1, 2013, cover price $74.95
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9780820343242 | Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1, 2013, cover price $29.95
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9780415807593 | Routledge, March 6, 2013, cover price $145.00
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9780814292969 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, August 20, 2013), cover price $14.95
9780814211953 | Ohio State Univ Pr, August 20, 2013, cover price $69.95
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.
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9780231510332 | Columbia Univ Pr, July 1, 2006, cover price $39.50
9780231137041, titled "Gypsies & the British Imagination, 1807-1930" | Columbia Univ Pr, July 1, 2006, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: 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.
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9780231137058 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 8, 2008, cover price $30.00
Product Description: This book is an extended inquiry into the dimension of exteriority constructed by philosophical systems and literary works. Literature has, since its inception, depended on a rogue's gallery of outsiders-the more outlandish the better, with human attributes optional-as the impetus to its events and the motive for its developments...read more
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9780823227693 | Fordham Univ Pr, May 1, 2007, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This book is an extended inquiry into the dimension of exteriority constructed by philosophical systems and literary works.
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9780823227709 | Fordham Univ Pr, May 1, 2007, cover price $35.00
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9780820427829 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 30, 2006, cover price $42.01
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9781557534064 | Purdue Univ Pr, July 30, 2005, cover price $43.95
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9780415909297 | Routledge, February 1, 1995, cover price $120.00
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9780415909303 | Routledge, November 1, 1994, cover price $37.95
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9780838635339 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $32.50
Product Description: Concerning itself with the radical instability of contemporary experience, this book traces this theme by focusing on the representation of exile in John Berger's writing. Exile is taken to signify not just the consequence of political banishment but also to refer to the dislocations of peoples by economic pressures and the redefinition of values and norms through cultural transformation...read more
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9780719038761 | Manchester Univ Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Concerning itself with the radical instability of contemporary experience, this book traces this theme by focusing on the representation of exile in John Berger's writing.
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9780472103867 | Univ of Michigan Pr, January 1, 1993, cover price $80.00
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9780838631263 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, December 1, 1982, cover price $32.50
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9780262131759 | Mit Pr, August 1, 1982, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: An examination of the treatment in literature of homosexuals, women, and Jews as outcasts from society includes analyses of the writings of Norman Mailer, James Joyce, and Oscar Wilde
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9780812816457 | Stein & Day Pub, October 1, 1973, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Examines the enigmatic figure of the stranger in Shakespeare's work as it is embodied by woman, Jew, Moor and savage, and attempts to explicate its deeper meaning
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