text by Aleksandra Gałązka Georgius Ultimus Almost two hundred years ago, on June 26th, 1830, the penultimate monarch of the British House of Hanover died. First the Prince of Wales, then the Regent, and finally King, George IV did not enjoy a good reputation either during his lifetime or posthumously. His excessive self-indulgence, scandalous debauchery, […]
text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko This volume is the eighth in our series, but also, in a few ways, the first. E.g., it is the first one available in Open Access! Here’s a fragment of the Foreword: In the previous volume in this series, the editors – Grażyna Bystydzieńska andEmma Harris – noted that in a […]
text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko Continuing the annual reports marking our anniversaries (year 1 and year 2), here’s what we’ve been doing over the last 12 months. WLM 13 Science and Literary Imagination in 18th- and 19th-century Britain was the topic of the latest workshop in our online series. WLM Rising Stars 3 This time, the […]
