Magazyny osobliwości w powieściach Karola Dickensa i Bolesława Prusa
Curiosities shops in novels by Charles Dickens and Bolesław Prus

Summary/Abstract: The article constitutes a part of my doctoral thesis, in which I study the subject of curiosity cabinets in nineteenth century literature and culture. I analyse the motif of curiosity shop (as a variety of cabinet) in Prus’s {Lalka} and Dickens’s {The Old Curiosity Shop}. This article attempts to show how the concept of the world built on the interpretation of peculiar expressions of reality influences narration, protagonists’ construction and text architecture.

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