Orient – rasa – ewolucjonizm. Idee „długiego wieku XIX” w Faraonie Bolesława Prusa
Orient – Race – Evolutionism: Long-Nineteenth-Century Ideas in Bolesław Prus’s Faraon [Pharaoh]

Summary/Abstract: Forajter explores the languages of nineteenth-century modernity in Bolesław Prus’snovel Faraon [Pharaoh]. Given that research on novelistic representation must take intoaccount contemporary discourses, Forajter highlights especially the orientalist systemof knowledge, notions of race as well as Herbert Spencer’s evolutionist theory of religion.These aspects, never before taken into account in discussions of the novel, play a key rolein the novel’s composition, they determine the characters’ personalities and the shapeof social conflicts portrayed in the text. They also redefine notions about the specificityof a realist work with a plot set in the past.

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