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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th century British literature and culture. Volume 6 Cover Image
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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th century British literature and culture. Volume 6
From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th century British literature and culture. Volume 6

Contributor(s): Grażyna Bystydzieńska (Editor), Emma Harris (Editor)
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Modern Age, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Queen Anne; Queen Victoria; British literature; British culture; 18th century; 19th century; Victorian society
Summary/Abstract: This sixth volume in the series From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria offers readers wide-ranging explorations of the society, literature and culture of 18th- and 19th-century Britain, with investigations of Victorian social problems, the visual and material culture of the Victorian period, and comparative studies of international and trans-national questions. Some themes and authors have long been well-known to the series, but this publication also contains new names and new ideas.

Series: From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria

  • E-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-3612-3
  • Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-3604-8
  • Page Count: 326
  • Publication Year: 2018
  • Language: English
The Un-Corseted Body and the Retro-Future of Pre-Raphaelite Dress

The Un-Corseted Body and the Retro-Future of Pre-Raphaelite Dress
(The Un-Corseted Body and the Retro-Future of Pre-Raphaelite Dress)

  • Author(s):Anna Antonowicz
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:13-25
  • No. of Pages:13
  • Keywords:Pre-Raphaelites; un-corseted dress; modern; nature; gender
  • Summary/Abstract:This essay explores the visual and material culture of late Victorian society, with investigation of the contemporary movement away from the artificial and towards the natural implied in the design of the Pre-Raphaelite un-corseted dress. This is dealt with in the context of artistic appreciation of changing gender roles in the emerging modern period.
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Neo-Victoria? Representations of the Young Monarch in The Young Victoria (2009) and Victoria TV Series (2016)

Neo-Victoria? Representations of the Young Monarch in The Young Victoria (2009) and Victoria TV Series (2016)
(Neo-Victoria? Representations of the Young Monarch in The Young Victoria (2009) and Victoria TV Series (2016))

  • Author(s):Dorota Babilas
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:27-35
  • No. of Pages:9
  • Keywords:Queen Victoria; British monarchy; TV series; neo-Victorianism; The Young Victoria
  • Summary/Abstract:The author explores two 21st-century British television serial dramas centred on Queen Victoria. The article seeks to determine the extent of neo-Victorian influence on present-day representations of the British monarchy, while taking into account 19th-century attitudes to monarchy.
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Pirate John Gow and Literary Renderings of his Career by Daniel Defoe and Sir Walter Scott

Pirate John Gow and Literary Renderings of his Career by Daniel Defoe and Sir Walter Scott
(Pirate John Gow and Literary Renderings of his Career by Daniel Defoe and Sir Walter Scott)

  • Author(s):Marek Błaszak
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:37-47
  • No. of Pages:11
  • Keywords:Orkney pirate; unprincipled cutthroat; Romantic outlaw
  • Summary/Abstract:This article analyses two literary representations – by Daniel Defoe and Sir Walter Scott – of the career of an early-18th century Orkney pirate in order to confront the contemporary view of John Gow as an unprincipled cutthroat with later literary images of a Romantic corsair. It therefore examines evolving literary approaches in the period to socially transgressive behaviour.
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The Child vis-à-vis God in the Poetry of William Wordsworth

The Child vis-à-vis God in the Poetry of William Wordsworth
(The Child vis-à-vis God in the Poetry of William Wordsworth)

  • Author(s):Eliza Borkowska
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:49-58
  • No. of Pages:10
  • Keywords:William Wordsworth; “Immortality Ode”; The Prelude; Child; God
  • Summary/Abstract:This article continues the author’s analysis of William Wordsworth’s religious and social beliefs published in earlier volumes of this series. Here, the focus is on the poet’s portrayal of religious sensibility in childhood. The author questions why the belief that the child is imbued with divine light – so strongly expressed in the “Immortality Ode” – strangely enough is not present in Wordsworth’s numerous other poems on childhood.
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Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s Jermoła versus George Eliot’s Silas Marner (a Historico-Literary Outline)

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s Jermoła versus George Eliot’s Silas Marner (a Historico-Literary Outline)
(Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s Jermoła versus George Eliot’s Silas Marner (a Historico-Literary Outline))

  • Author(s):Aleksandra Budrewicz
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:59-69
  • No. of Pages:11
  • Keywords:comparative literature; family; influence; novel; Poland
  • Summary/Abstract:This is a comparative literary study of plot similarities between Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s Jermoła and George Eliot’s Silas Marner with discussion of the possibility that George Eliot was acquainted with the plot of Jermoła before the publication of her own novel. It also examines representation in the novels of patterns in contemporary Polish and British society of family relations and social influence.
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“I was on a journey”. John Henry Newman’s Search for the Ultimate Truth

“I was on a journey”. John Henry Newman’s Search for the Ultimate Truth
(“I was on a journey”. John Henry Newman’s Search for the Ultimate Truth)

  • Author(s):Grażyna Bystydzieńska
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:71-80
  • No. of Pages:10
  • Keywords:John Henry Newman; autobiography; conversion narrative; dream vision
  • Summary/Abstract:This article analyses John Henry Newman’s autobiography, Apologia pro Vita Sua, which is treated as a conversion narrative, alongside his dream vision, The Dream of Gerontius. On this basis, it examines the evolution of Newman’s religious creed in the context of 19th-century British systems of belief and ecclesiastical affiliation.
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Victorian Anxieties Concerning Old Age in Anthony Trollope’s

Victorian Anxieties Concerning Old Age in Anthony Trollope’s
(Victorian Anxieties Concerning Old Age in Anthony Trollope’s)

  • Author(s):Ilona Dobosiewicz
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:81-88
  • No. of Pages:8
  • Keywords:Anthony Trollope; The Fixed Period; old age; death
  • Summary/Abstract:This article examines Victorian anxieties about old age through discussion of Anthony Trollope's novel, The Fixed Period. On the basis of analysis of this satirical dystopian novel, the author concludes that the social problems of old age and how to treat elderly citizens were of crucial importance in late Victorian society.
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Poles and Precursors in 1830s London

Poles and Precursors in 1830s London
(Poles and Precursors in 1830s London)

  • Author(s):Emma Harris
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:89-104
  • No. of Pages:6
  • Keywords:Great Emigration; London Irish; democrats; Chartists; Precursors
  • Summary/Abstract:This article examines Polish and Irish political co-operation and agendas in 1830s London. It analyses the relationship between the democratic Polish political refugees of the Great Emigration, many of whom supported the Chartist movement, and the London Irish who joined Daniel O’Connell’s Precursor movement, considering the extent of cross-cultural misunderstanding.
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‘Filthy Egyptian Tricks’ in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Ring of Thoth” and “Lot no. 249”

‘Filthy Egyptian Tricks’ in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Ring of Thoth” and “Lot no. 249”
(‘Filthy Egyptian Tricks’ in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Ring of Thoth” and “Lot no. 249”)

  • Author(s):Justyna Jajszczok
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:105-113
  • No. of Pages:9
  • Keywords:British imperialism; Gothic Egypt fiction; infection; invasion literature; reverse colonisation
  • Summary/Abstract:The author discusses late 19th-century invasion literature in the context of Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Ring of Thoth” and “Lot no. 249.” This enables the article to examine issues connected with British imperialism and reverse colonisation, since the plots of both texts can be presented as a version of imperial narratives, with ultimate victory over the invading force brought about by means of new, scientific methods.
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Spaces that Haunt: Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Old Nurse’s Story”

Spaces that Haunt: Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Old Nurse’s Story”
(Spaces that Haunt: Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Old Nurse’s Story”)

  • Author(s):Anna Kędra-Kardela
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:115-124
  • No. of Pages:10
  • Keywords:Elizabeth Gaskell; “The Old Nurse’s Story”; haunted house; Gothic space; Victorian Gothic
  • Summary/Abstract:The author applies Manuel Aguirre’s theory of two zones in horror literature separated by thresholds – “the human world” and the “Otherworld” – to the haunted house in one of Elizabeth Gaskell’s rare excursions into the supernatural, “The Old Nurse’s Story.” There is analysis of the concern voiced about the fate of female victims of men and of the undermining of the idea of home as a safe place by its presentation as anti-home.
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The History of the Queen Margaret College Settlement in Glasgow from 1898 to 1914

The History of the Queen Margaret College Settlement in Glasgow from 1898 to 1914
(The History of the Queen Margaret College Settlement in Glasgow from 1898 to 1914)

  • Author(s):Katarzyna Kłosińska
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:125-132
  • No. of Pages:8
  • Keywords:Queen Margaret College; settlement movement; female students; social work; Glasgow
  • Summary/Abstract:This communiqué relates the history of the Queen Margaret College Settlement in Glasgow from the end of the Victorian period. It places this initiative undertaken by early women graduates within the wider university settlement movement, showing how women adapted to the social work involved in a project designed to encourage the moral and material betterment of slum dwellers.
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Landscaping Irishness in the 19th Century

Landscaping Irishness in the 19th Century
(Landscaping Irishness in the 19th Century)

  • Author(s):Katarzyna Kociołek
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:133-143
  • No. of Pages:11
  • Keywords:Ireland; art; landscape painting; metaphor
  • Summary/Abstract:This article analyses the message of Irish 19th-century landscape painting, in an attempt to link physical space with national and cultural identity. It examines the artistic legacy of British-Irish relations, discussing metaphors found in selected works of art, while placing the landscape artists within the frame of reference of the colonial narrative of Ireland as the Other.
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A Doppelganger or “the animal within me”? Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

A Doppelganger or “the animal within me”? Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(A Doppelganger or “the animal within me”? Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

  • Author(s):Joanna Kokot
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:145-155
  • No. of Pages:11
  • Keywords:Robert Louis Stevenson; Gothic fiction; Doppelganger; split personality; literary space
  • Summary/Abstract:Within the wide framework of Gothic fiction, this article offers an analysis of narrative strategies and spatial organisation in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It attempts to resolve the basic split personality mystery of whether Hyde was a Doppelganger or “the animal within me.”
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The Leaf Motif: Tolkien’s Tree and Leaf vs. Ruskin’s The Nature of Gothic

The Leaf Motif: Tolkien’s Tree and Leaf vs. Ruskin’s The Nature of Gothic
(The Leaf Motif: Tolkien’s Tree and Leaf vs. Ruskin’s The Nature of Gothic)

  • Author(s):Barbara Kowalik
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:157-167
  • No. of Pages:11
  • Keywords:nature; gothic; leaves; Ruskin; Tolkien
  • Summary/Abstract:This article assesses and compares J. R. R. Tolkien’s Tree and Leaf with John Ruskin’s The Nature of Gothic, suggesting that the wide dissemination of Ruskin’s ideas had an impact on Tolkien. The author demonstrates the ways in which Tolkien employs these natural arboreal motifs to communicate reflections on various forms of creativity.
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“This place has more stairs than the Museum of Natural Philosophy” – the Imaginary World of Stephen Hunt’s The Court of the Air

“This place has more stairs than the Museum of Natural Philosophy” – the Imaginary World of Stephen Hunt’s The Court of the Air
(“This place has more stairs than the Museum of Natural Philosophy” – the Imaginary World of Stephen Hunt’s The Court of the Air)

  • Author(s):Katarzyna Kozak
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:169-177
  • No. of Pages:9
  • Keywords:neo-Victorian; Stephen Hunt; secondary worlds; mythology; supernatural
  • Summary/Abstract:This article deals with the fictional secondary world portrayed in Stephen Hunt’s 21st-century, neo-Victorian novel, The Court of the Air. Although technologically advanced, this is reminiscent of the Victorian period, and the author discusses the connection created between nature and historical developments, as well as the use of mythology and the supernatural, which are related to Victorian interest in the paranormal.
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The Smiling Daughters of Darkness: Visual Reimaginings of Joseph Le Fanu’s Carmilla

The Smiling Daughters of Darkness: Visual Reimaginings of Joseph Le Fanu’s Carmilla
(The Smiling Daughters of Darkness: Visual Reimaginings of Joseph Le Fanu’s Carmilla)

  • Author(s):Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:179-188
  • No. of Pages:10
  • Keywords:lesbian vampire; film adaptation; Delphine Seyrig; palimpsest; bleed-through
  • Summary/Abstract:The author presents a discussion of visual reimaginings in painting and illustrations, comic books, feature films, TV shows and video games, of Joseph Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla, concentrating on the 1971 film, Daughters of Darkness, in which the lead was played by Delphine Seyrig. This is accompanied by analysis of the novella’s ground-breaking female (lesbian) vampire and various motifs of the genre.
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The Hunt is On: Inter- and Paratextuality in The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper

The Hunt is On: Inter- and Paratextuality in The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper
(The Hunt is On: Inter- and Paratextuality in The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper)

  • Author(s):Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:189-197
  • No. of Pages:9
  • Keywords:intertexts; Jack the Ripper; James Carnac; paratexts; Ripperature
  • Summary/Abstract:This is an interpretation of a 2012 “autobiography” of a purported Jack the Ripper, James Carnac. The article discusses the intertexts and multi-layered paratextual elements of this piece of Ripperature – including the use made of literary works and visual material – that aim to authenticate the account by placing it in historical time.
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A Christmas Carol: A Therapeutic Tale?

A Christmas Carol: A Therapeutic Tale?
(A Christmas Carol: A Therapeutic Tale?)

  • Author(s):Ewa Kujawska-Lis
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:199-210
  • No. of Pages:12
  • Keywords:A Christmas Carol; Scrooge; Philip Zimbardo; Time Perspective Therapy; time perception
  • Summary/Abstract:This analysis of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol uses psychological theory to address the question of what happened to effect a change in Scrooge’s behavioural patterns. It deals with the perception of time and balancing time perspectives, in the context of Philip Zimbardo’s Temporal Theory and Time Perspective Therapy.
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“Did Guy Fawkes ever live?”: the Evolving Perspectives on the Figure of Guy Fawkes in Victorian Literature

“Did Guy Fawkes ever live?”: the Evolving Perspectives on the Figure of Guy Fawkes in Victorian Literature
(“Did Guy Fawkes ever live?”: the Evolving Perspectives on the Figure of Guy Fawkes in Victorian Literature)

  • Author(s):Monika Mazurek
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:211-218
  • No. of Pages:8
  • Keywords:Victorian novel; historical novel; Harrison Ainsworth; Selina Bunbury; Guy Fawkes
  • Summary/Abstract:Within the framework of the theme of mid-19th century English anti-Catholicism, this article investigates the rise and fall of the bonfire night tradition of burning Guy Fawkes. It concentrates on analysis of Harrison Ainsworth’s popular 1841 historical novel Guy Fawkes and Selina Bunbury’s 1844 historical novel Coombe Abbey, both of which focus on the Gunpowder Plot.
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Dis-abled Bodies: Disability and Vulnerability in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Dis-abled Bodies: Disability and Vulnerability in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
(Dis-abled Bodies: Disability and Vulnerability in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)

  • Author(s):Heather Negrón
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:219-227
  • No. of Pages:9
  • Keywords:Frankenstein; monster; disability; able-bodied; horror
  • Summary/Abstract:The use in this article of disability theory to analyse Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein raises questions connected with the social structuring of disability in general. It analyses the production of horror in the novel through exposing the contrast between the dis-abled monster and able-bodied characters.
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Art and Argument in Charles Reade’s Hard Cash and Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science

Art and Argument in Charles Reade’s Hard Cash and Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science
(Art and Argument in Charles Reade’s Hard Cash and Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science)

  • Author(s):Małgorzata Nitka
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:229-237
  • No. of Pages:9
  • Keywords:Charles Reade; Wilkie Collins; insanity; vivisection; mission
  • Summary/Abstract:This article discusses and compares two novels with a mission or social purpose that concentrate on themes connected with, in the case of Charles Reade’s matter-of-fact romance Hard Cash (1863), the treatment of insanity, and in that of Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science (1883), vivisection. The author concludes that in furthering a didactic purpose, neither novel departs far from the sensation framework.
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Voices Prophesying War. Late Victorian Scientists and Speculative Writers

Voices Prophesying War. Late Victorian Scientists and Speculative Writers
(Voices Prophesying War. Late Victorian Scientists and Speculative Writers)

  • Author(s):Dominika Oramus
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:239-249
  • No. of Pages:11
  • Keywords:late Victorian science; physicists; invasion narratives; war fiction; H. G. Wells
  • Summary/Abstract:The relationship between late Victorian scientists and speculative writers is reviewed in this article in the context of British popular and fictional approaches to scientific research, including the use of scientific inventions in invasion narratives and war fiction. It shows interactions between novelists like H. G. Wells and the work of British particle physicists, a summary of whose achievements is provided.
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Women in Power and in Love: 19th-Century Portraits of British Queens in Gaetano Donizetti’s Operas

Women in Power and in Love: 19th-Century Portraits of British Queens in Gaetano Donizetti’s Operas
(Women in Power and in Love: 19th-Century Portraits of British Queens in Gaetano Donizetti’s Operas)

  • Author(s):Aleksandra Ożarowska
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:251-263
  • No. of Pages:13
  • Keywords:Donizetti; opera; Anne Boleyn; Mary Stuart; Elizabeth I
  • Summary/Abstract:This article analyses the sources for 19th-century musical stage portrayals of the characters and behaviour of three 16th-century British Queens, Anne Boleyn, Mary Stuart and Elizabeth I. The author concentrates on Gaetano Donizetti’s operas, including detailed interrogation of the lyrics of Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux.
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Adaptations of Roman Plots in John Dennis’s Tragedies

Adaptations of Roman Plots in John Dennis’s Tragedies
(Adaptations of Roman Plots in John Dennis’s Tragedies)

  • Author(s):Oleg Polyakov
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:265-272
  • No. of Pages:8
  • Keywords:John Dennis; tragedy; neo-classicism; Roman plots; Augustan literature
  • Summary/Abstract:The article deals with Augustan literature, discussing adaptations of Roman plots in John Dennis’s neo-classical tragedies. This phenomenon is placed within the framework of general interest in the political and cultural life of Ancient Rome that can be found in 18th-century English literature and criticism.
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The Racialized Body in The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Racialized Body in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
(The Racialized Body in The Mystery of Edwin Drood)

  • Author(s):Magdalena Pypeć
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:273-284
  • No. of Pages:12
  • Keywords:Victorian England; race; colonialism; imperialism; racial hybridity
  • Summary/Abstract:This article seeks to examine Charles Dickens’s approach to the issues of race and colonialism in the context of the views current in Victorian England. It analyses the racialised body and racial hybridity in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, against a background of mid-century theories on racial hierarchies and natural inequalities.
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“Groping in the dark”: the Representation of Poverty in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House

“Groping in the dark”: the Representation of Poverty in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House
(“Groping in the dark”: the Representation of Poverty in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House)

  • Author(s):Agnieszka Setecka
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:285-293
  • No. of Pages:9
  • Keywords:Charles Dickens; Bleak House; poverty; political economy; economic progress
  • Summary/Abstract:This article dealing with the representation of poverty in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House examines mid-Victorian approaches to the question of poverty in the light of liberal theories of political economy and economic progress. The author concludes that Dickens discerns the roots of the problem in ignorance and moral degradation and wishes to educate the poor into accepting the currently dominant system of values.
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Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a Dialogue with the Country House Ideal

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a Dialogue with the Country House Ideal
(Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a Dialogue with the Country House Ideal)

  • Author(s):Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:295-311
  • No. of Pages:17
  • Keywords:Austen; country house; Pride and Prejudice; manorial
  • Summary/Abstract:This study of the culture of the early 19th century scrutinises Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. It argues that the novel attempts to contrast the country house ideal with the social and economic reality of the time when it was written.
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Pope’s ‘Solid Pudding,’ Swift’s ‘Proposal,’ and the Poor: Poverty in Scriblerian Texts

Pope’s ‘Solid Pudding,’ Swift’s ‘Proposal,’ and the Poor: Poverty in Scriblerian Texts
(Pope’s ‘Solid Pudding,’ Swift’s ‘Proposal,’ and the Poor: Poverty in Scriblerian Texts)

  • Author(s):Przemysław Uściński
  • Language:English
  • Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
  • Page Range:313-326
  • No. of Pages:14
  • Keywords:Alexander Pope; Jonathan Swift; poverty; satire; compassion
  • Summary/Abstract:This article presents a detailed analysis of approaches to poverty in Scriblerian texts. It discusses their complex attitudes, including the debate on the appropriateness of laughing at the poor in comedy or satire, and traces to the industrial revolution the definitive social and literary locating of the sources of poverty in the ineptitude, laziness and moral turpitude of the poor themselves.
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