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).

...a thorough and thoughtful analysis

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements1. Introduction. A Blast From the Past2. The Bible in Spain. An Unlikely Victorian Bestseller3. ‘The Last Genuine Example of the Picturesque?’ Lavengro and The Romany Rye4. Wild Wales: Borrow the Bad Englishman5. A New Romanticism, or Borrowed Scenes?6. Afterword: A Genre of his Own?Select BibliographyIndex

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).

...a thorough and thoughtful analysis

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements1. Introduction. A Blast From the Past2. The Bible in Spain. An Unlikely Victorian Bestseller3. ‘The Last Genuine Example of the Picturesque?’ Lavengro and The Romany Rye4. Wild Wales: Borrow the Bad Englishman5. A New Romanticism, or Borrowed Scenes?6. Afterword: A Genre of his Own?Select BibliographyIndex

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).

...a thorough and thoughtful analysis

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements1. Introduction. A Blast From the Past2. The Bible in Spain. An Unlikely Victorian Bestseller3. ‘The Last Genuine Example of the Picturesque?’ Lavengro and The Romany Rye4. Wild Wales: Borrow the Bad Englishman5. A New Romanticism, or Borrowed Scenes?6. Afterword: A Genre of his Own?Select BibliographyIndex