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Author:   Wojciech Jasiakiewicz ,  Jakub Lipski
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9783631653203

ISBN 10:   3631653204
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   22 April 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Wojciech Jasiakiewicz: Henry VIII and the Polish question – Małgorzata Rutkowska: «Strangely unknown in England»: Poland in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century British travel accounts – Magdalena Ożarska: Austenian inspirations for Maria Wirtemberska’s «Original Romance»: Malvina, or the Heart’s Intuition (1816) – Miłosz K. Cybowski: First and last refuge: France and Britain as centres of the Polish Great Emigration – Michał Borodo: Billy and Casp: Rediscovering forgotten translations in Polish-English cultural exchanges – Tomasz Niedokos: Close encounters with John Bull: Polish narratives of disappointment with England – Douglas Root: Samuel Johnson and Voltaire’s «Petty Cavils» on English literature – Krystyna Urbisz Golkowska: Identity renegotiation in Charlote Brontë’s Villette – Dariusz Pestka: The influence of continental symbolism, impressionism and post-impressionism on British writers and painters – Adam Aleksandrowicz: Crossing the Channel with Julian Barnes: A brief (hi)story of fulfilment, misapprehension and disillusionment – Maciej Wieczorek: Living through the benign nightmares? (Re)contextualising in-yer-face theatre – Stephen Dewsbury: Two world wars and one World Cup: Attitudes and expressions to «the Continent» in John King’s England Away – Jakub Lipski: Radcliffe’s capricci: The prisons of the Inquisition in The Italian – Daniel Evers: «My heart is sore / For my own land’s sins»: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s relationship with Italy.

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Wojciech Jasiakiewicz is Associate Professor at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (Poland). He has written a monograph on British travel accounts of Poland. Jakub Lipski is Assistant Professor at Kazimierz Wielki University. His research concerns the eighteenth-century novel and culture, particularly the works of Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne and Ann Radcliffe.

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