The Gypsy as the Other in Victorian Literature
The Gypsy as the Other in Victorian Literature

Summary/Abstract: Discussing 19th-century cultural differences from a present-day viewpoint allows there searcher to examine the literary past of racial discriminations and explore the Victorian presence of the Gypsy as other both romanticised and vilified. This race was portrayed in Victorian literature positively or negatively based on the 19th-century cultural mentalities and stereotypes. This paper attempts to approach some works of the Victorian writers who created a psychological context to understand the complex nature of human personality, focusing on this unconventional ethnic group. We endeavour to examine the figure of the peripheral characters as a form of racialism and cultural difference. In this way, to discover how Victorian writers designed the Gypsy characters, we have explored some literary productions of authors such as Charlotte Brontë, George Borrow, and Gorge Eliot.

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