Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

A new scholarly edition of George Borrow's Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest (1851) offers a fresh perspective on this bold and overlooked Victorian text, blending memoir, travelogue, ethnography, and realism. It provides students and academic researchers with access to more nuanced assessments of Lavengro and relevant contexts, reconsiders Borrow's relationship to nineteenth-century writings on Romani and traveler culture, explores his influence on later Victorian and modernist authors, and surveys and gauges recent debates and critical accounts of Borrow's life and literary career.

Format: Hardback
Length: 672 pages
Publication date: 31 October 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

A new scholarly edition of a bold yet overlooked Victorian text that blends the genres of memoir, travelogue, ethnography, and the realist novel

Permits students and academic researchers to access more subtle assessments of Lavengro, as well as a range of relevant contexts

Reappraises the relation of Lavengro to nineteenth-century writings on Romani and traveler culture

Explores George Borrow's influence on an array of later Victorian and modernist authors such as Ford Madox Ford and Virginia Woolf.

Surveys and gauges recent debates and critical accounts of George Borrow's life and literary career

This critical edition of George Borrow's Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest (1851) brings a renewed focus on a formally inventive and original text for scholars of the nineteenth-century autobiographical novel and travelogue.

This edition reflects and develops research that anchors Borrow's energetically eccentric vision in a range of notable contexts.

The scholarly introduction gives readers unfamiliar with the formidably prolific Borrow an opportunity to discover more about this author's career at home and abroad (as a translator for the British and Foreign Bible Society), his stylistic innovations, and how Lavengro evokes a wild England that became crucial for admirers in the next century such as D.H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399516877