Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vi
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. 1. Introduction: A Blast from the Past 1
6. 2. The Bible in Spain: An Unlikely Victorian Bestseller 30
7. 3. ‘The Last Genuine Example of the Picaresque’? Lavengro and The Romany Rye 63
8. 4. Wild Wales: Borrow the Bad Englishman 105
9. 5. A New Romanticism, or Borrowed Scenes? 166
10. 6. Afterword: A Genre of his Own? 206
11. Select Bibliography 215
12. Index 223