Sarah Houghton-Walker

Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period

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Produktbeschreibung

Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period examines the ways writers and artists from the Romantic period depict gypsies. It examines how various aspects of the contemporary context influence those depictions, and highligts the opportunities offered by the figure of the gypsy for the exploration of a range of hopes and fears.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780198719472
• ISBN-10: 0198719477
• Artikelnr.: 47865582

Autorenporträt

Sarah Houghton-Walker is a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where she teaches on the literature of the long eighteenth century. Her first book was on John Clare, and she is a founding co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for John Clare Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Background, Histories, and Myths: the Situation of the Gypsies in
the Romantic Period
* 2: Literary Contexts: the Gypsy on the Page in the Romantic Period
* 3: William Cowper's Gypsies
* 4: John Clare's Gypsies
* 5: Wandering, Wordsworth, and Gypsies
* 6: 'Place' in Austen's Emma: Englishness, Gypsies, and Harriet Smith
* 7: Aesthetic Theories and Literary Traditions: Accommodating the
Gypsy in Art
* 8: Industry, Idleness, and Class
* Conclusion: The Art of Storytelling: the Literary Gypsy on the Cusp
of Change
* Bibliography