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This wide-ranging and persuasively argued study offers a major reinterpretation of George Borrow's somewhat overlooked writings, and valuably alerts the reader to crucial issues of tramping, vagrancy and gypsy folklore in the Victorian period. Andrew Radford convincingly demonstrates the ways in which these texts worked to deconstruct the prevailing literary canon, and his exemplary new critique makes a ground-breaking contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century rural writing and its legacy.--Roger Ebbatson, Lancaster University

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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).

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