Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period write by Sarah Houghton-Walker. This book was released on 2014. Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Gypsies
Gypsies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gypsies write by David Cressy. This book was released on 2018-06-13. Gypsies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and—more recently—Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and stories that have accreted around them over time? Can they even be regarded as a single people or ethnicity at all? Gypsies have frequently been vilified, and not much less frequently romanticized, by the settled population over the centuries. Social historian David Cressy now attempts to disentangle the myth from the reality of Gypsy life over more than half a millennium of English history. In this, the first comprehensive historical study of the doings and dealings of Gypsies in England, he draws on original archival research, and a wide range of reading, to trace the many moments when Gypsy lives became entangled with those of villagers and townsfolk, religious and secular authorities, and social and moral reformers. Crucially, it is a story not just of the Gypsy community and its peculiarities, but also of England's treatment of that community, from draconian Elizabethan statutes, through various degrees of toleration and fascination, right up to the tabloid newspaper campaigns against Gypsy and Traveller encampments of more recent years.
'Gypsies' in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Books
'Gypsies' in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 'Gypsies' in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Books write by Jean Kommers. This book was released on 2022-08-29. 'Gypsies' in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about the origin and development of the presentation of gypsies as narrative device in West-European children’s literature.
Vagrancy in the Victorian Age
Vagrancy in the Victorian Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vagrancy in the Victorian Age write by Alistair Robinson. This book was released on 2021-10-14. Vagrancy in the Victorian Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations. They appeared in a variety of forms in a variety of places: Gypsies and hawkers tramped the country, casual paupers and loafers lingered in the city, and vagabonds and beachcombers roved the colonial frontiers. Uncovering the rich Victorian taxonomy of nineteenth-century vagrancy for the first time, this interdisciplinary study examines how assumptions about class, gender, race and environment shaped a series of distinct vagrant types. At the same time it broaches new ground by demonstrating that rural and urban conceptions of vagrancy were repurposed in colonial contexts. Representational strategies circulated globally as well as locally, and were used to articulate shifting fantasies and anxieties about mobility, poverty and homelessness. These are traced through an extensive corpus of canonical, ephemeral and popular texts as well as a variety of visual forms.
'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700
'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 write by Frances Timbers. This book was released on 2016-04-20. 'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England between the early sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century. Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including government documents, pamphlets, rogue literature, and plays), and archival material (quarter sessions and assize cases, parish records and constables's accounts), the book argues that the construction of gypsy identity was part of a wider discourse concerning the increasing vagabond population, and was further informed by the religious reformations and political insecurities of the time. The developing narrative of a fraternity of dangerous vagrants resulted in the gypsy population being designated as a special category of rogues and vagabonds by both the state and popular culture. The alleged Egyptian origin of the group and the practice of fortune-telling by palmistry contributed elements of the exotic, which contributed to the concept of the mysterious alien. However, as this book reveals, a close examination of the first gypsies that are known by name shows that they were more likely Scottish and English vagrants, employing the ambiguous and mysterious reputation of the newly emerging category of gypsy. This challenges the theory that sixteenth-century gypsies were migrants from India and/or early predecessors to the later Roma population, as proposed by nineteenth-century gypsiologists. The book argues that the fluid identity of gypsies, whose origins and ethnicity were (and still are) ambiguous, allowed for the group to become a prime candidate for the 'other', thus a useful tool for reinforcing the parameters of orthodox social behaviour.
