San Antonio College Library

Discusses fiction in which the arrival of a "mysterious stranger" affects the community, focusing on such works as Mark Twain's Mystersious Stranger, William Faulkner's Spotted Horses, and Flannery O'Connor's The Displaced Person.

"Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Deborah Epstein Nord traces various representations of Gypsies in the works of such well-known British authors John Clare, Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, and D.H. Lawrence. Nord also exhumes lesser-known literary, ethnographic, and historical...

"Standing outside elite or even middling circles, outsiders who were marginalized by limitations on their freedom and their need to labor for a living had a unique grasp on the profoundly social nature of print and its power to influence public opinion. In Empowering Words, Karen A. Weyler explores how outsiders used ephemeral formats such as broadsides, pamphlets, and newspapers to publish poetry, captivity narratives, formal addresses, and other...