Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest (Summarized Edition) Enriched edition. Romany Roads through England and Wales: A 19th-Century Odyssey of Learning, Faith, and Self-Discovery【電子書籍】[ George Borrow ]

＜p＞Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest is a daring fusion of picaresque, autobiography, and linguistic ethnography. Its bookish yet combative narrator roams early nineteenth-century Englandーfairs, roads, Romany encampmentsーmeeting tinkers, prizefighters, and an argumentative Irish priest. Episodic scenes, studded with Romani and cant, debate freedom, conscience, and national character, while Borrow's vigorous, digressive prose challenges emergent Victorian realism. Borrow, Norwich-born son of a soldier, grew up itinerant and taught himself a treasury of tongues; later he served the British and Foreign Bible Society across Europe. The Zincali and The Bible in Spain prepared his sympathetic yet contentious portrait of Romany life. Anti-Catholic skirmishes, self-justification, and memoriesーIsopel (Belle) Berners, the spectre dogーpress his fiction toward confession. Readers of Victorian literature, travel writing, and the history of marginal communities will find Lavengro richly r．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る