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

Author(s): Anna Antonowicz / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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)

Author(s): Dorota Babilas / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Marek Błaszak / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Grażyna Bystydzieńska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Ilona Dobosiewicz / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Emma Harris / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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”

Author(s): Justyna Jajszczok / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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”

Author(s): Anna Kędra-Kardela / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Katarzyna Kłosińska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Katarzyna Kociołek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Joanna Kokot / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Barbara Kowalik / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Katarzyna Kozak / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Monika Mazurek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Heather Negrón / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Małgorzata Nitka / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Dominika Oramus / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Aleksandra Ożarowska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Oleg Polyakov / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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

Author(s): Magdalena Pypeć / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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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