Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Children of Hagar
1
A “Mingled Race”:
Walter Scott’s Gypsies
2
Vagrant and Poet:
The Gypsy and the “Strange Disease of Modern Life”
3
In the Beginning Was the Word:
George Borrow’s Romany Picaresque
4
“Marks of Race”:
The Impossible Gypsy in George Eliot
5
“The Last Romance”:
Scholarship and Nostalgia in the Gypsy Lore Society
6
The Phantom Gypsy:
Invisibility, Writing, and History
Notes
Bibliography
Index
