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.
| ISBN: | 9781399516877 |
| Publication date: | 31st October 2023 |
| Author: | George Borrow |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 680 pages |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth-Century Texts |
| Genres: |
Poetry Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Anthologies: general |