
George Borrow, Lavengro
The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
Andrew D. Radford(Editor)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 1. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
680 pages
978-1-3995-5414-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
This well-researched and expertly edited new edition enables the reader to understand how Borrow's familiarity with wayfaring and the gypsy community raised their profile in an era of increasing centralisation, and highlights how this work related to current debates around evolution and anthropology. Radford demonstrates the ways in which Borrow's complex narrative voice draws upon post-Romantic ideas of subjectivity and shows how influential Borrow was to become on subsequent authors, ranging from Robert Louis Stevenson to the Dymock Poets. -- Roger Ebbatson, Lancaster UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
11 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
934 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-5414-5 (9781399554145)
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Person
Andrew Radford is Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. His books include The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion (co-edited with Suzanne Hobson, 2023), British Experimental Women's Fiction, 1945-1975 (co-edited with Hannah Van Hove, 2021), The Occult Imagination in Britain 1875-1947 (co-edited with Christine Ferguson, 2018), Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism (2014) and Mapping the Wessex Novel (2010). He has recently published a critical edition of George Borrow's autobiographical novel Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest with Edinburgh University Press (2023).
Content
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Further Reading
Lavengro. The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
W. I. Knapp's Editor's Postscript
Notes
List of Gypsy Words in Lavengro
Appendix: Extracts from Contemporary Reviews of George Borrow's Lavengro
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Further Reading
Lavengro. The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
W. I. Knapp's Editor's Postscript
Notes
List of Gypsy Words in Lavengro
Appendix: Extracts from Contemporary Reviews of George Borrow's Lavengro
Index