T A B L E O F CONTENTS
Grazyna Bystydzienska and Emma Harris
Foreword
9
Anna Antonowicz
Orientalism Revisited: Indian Decorative Art
in British Mid-Victorian Cultural Policy
13
Dorota Babilas
The Empress's New Clothes: the Sartorial Politics
of Queen Victoria
21
Joanna Barlak
Public Scorn and a Quest for Freedom in The Epistle from
Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
31
John Barrell
Rus in Urbe
39
Marek Btaszak
Some Sober Reflections on the Strange and Surprising Defoe Canon
59
Bartlomiej Blaszkiewicz
Alfred Lord Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur and the Medieval Tradition
71
Maria Blaszkiewicz
Death - the Last Frontier: Plot Transformations in Recent Film
Adaptations of Science-Fiction Classics: Kenneth Branagh's Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein and Simon Wells' The Time Machine
83
Eliza Borkowska
First: Know How to End, or: Wordsworth's Recipe
for How to Make a Poem
91
Grazyna Bystydzienska
"Traces of Eden". The Negative Poetics of William Cowper
in The Task
109
Anna Cetera
Prisca gens mortalium, or the Savages at Home: James Boswell
and his Tour to Corsica (1765)
117
Monika Coghen
Early Nineteenth-Century Polish Readings of British Poetry
127
Bozena Depa
The River as a Boundary in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
139
Bona Dobosiewicz
Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy as a Critical Exploration of the Victorian
Anglo-Jewish Community
149
Agnieszka Gajewska
The Theatrical Audience in London from Samuel Pepys to Samuel
Johnson
161
Agnieszka Gerwatowska
Talking about Values - Oscar Wilde's The Fisherman and his Soul
in Relation to Andersen's The Fittle Mermaid and The Shadow
175
Herbert Grabes
A New Approach to Cultural and Literary History: Thomas Walton's
History of English Poetry
183
Matgorzata Grzegorzewska
Dickens Reads Girard: How on Christmas Day Pip Became a Piglet
201
Anna Gutowska
George Eliot and Failure: Middlemarch
209
Dorota Guzowska
Ralph Thoresby: a Man of Passion
217
Emma Harris
Changing Attitudes to Society and Education: Commentary in Britain
and Poland on John Stuart Mill's Schooling
229
Aleksandra kedzierska
Women of No Importance? Fallenness in Selected Works
of Oscar Wilde
243
Milena Kokosza
Between "Emotional Terrorism" and Mental Control - the Misuse of
Religion in the Brontes' Novels
251
Joanna Kokot
Decadent London. Cityscapes in Arthur Machen's Early Fiction
261
Barbara Kowalik
Time-Space in A Nocturnal Reverie by Anne Finch
273
Lucyna Krawczyk
The Angel in the Pulpit: Images of Heavenly Messengers
in Victorian Sermons
283
Anna Krawczyk-Laskarzewska
Breaking the Fourth Wall, or Tristram Shandy in the World
of Celebrity Culture
293
Renata Kurek
Transformations of Apotheosis in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonais
303
Agnieszka Lowczanin-Laszkiewicz
"This or any death I will sooner undergo than be yours" - the
Appropriation of Death in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa
309
Malgorzata Luczynska-Holdys
Love's fev'rous citadel: John Keats's The Eve of Saint Agnes
and its Victorian Permutations
319
Marlena Marciniak
Truthfulness, Integrity and Goodness - the Essence of Manly Character
as Conceptualised by Samuel Smiles in Self-Help and Character
327
Stankomir Nicieja
Darker Future: Science, Biology and Society in H . G Wells'
The Time Machine
337
Wojciech Nowicki
Ian Watt's Theory of Realism Fifty Years On
343
Magdalena Ozarska
Fanny Burney's Courtship Strategies as Evidence of her Transition
from a 'Nobody' to an Independent Self
353
Justyna Plachta
A Victimised Villainess. Wilkie Collins's Miss Gwilt on Stage
35]
Magdalena Pypec
Bleak House and the Conventions of the Fairy Tale
357
Audrone Raskauskiene
The Problem of Evil and Dualism in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs
and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: A Jungian Perspective
377
Pawel Rutkowski
Witches, Demoniacs and Ghosts: John Wesley's Methodism in Defence
of Real Christianity
387
Ewa Sawicka
The Chemical Wedding of the Ancient Mariner. Rosicrucian Sources of
the Imagery of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner
397
Natalia Soloviova
The Subliminal Within and Without the Gothic Context (from Gothic
Romance to the Sensation Novel)
405
Brian South am
Emma and Jane Austen's Englishness
413
Edyta Swierczynska
The Motif of Pilgrimage in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens ....
Andrzej Weselinski
Bram Stoker's Dracula: the Victorian Gothic and its
Postmodern Legacy
Jadwiga W^grodzka
Gardens in Moral Tales: Cultural, Generic and Textual Aspects
of Garden Settings in Selected Stories by Maria Edgeworth
427
433
443
Jacek Wisniewski
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of
Southampton, by the Reverend Gilbert White, M.A
453
Beata Zelechowska
Illegitimate Children in Victorian England in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth ...
453