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QAQV year 3

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 […]

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Ewa Młynarczyk: The Arthurian Legend from the Victorian perspective in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (2024)

text by Grażyna Bystydzieńska The book is based on Ewa’s MA dissertation written under my supervision in 2008. Ewa suggested the topic of her dissertation herself as she was interested in adaptation of mythology and legends by the Victorian poets and she wanted to show how the new cultural context of a different epoch changed […]

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The Victorian Gothic Archetype of the Mummy in Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lot No. 249

text by Konrad Zaręba Following our recent workshop, WLM: Rising Stars 3, titled “Spectres of Gothic Literature: Reflections, Reworkings, Reinventions”, which featured two presentations focusing on vampire characters, I was struck by the enduring prominence of vampirism in scholarly discourse. Among the variety of Gothic monsters, vampires continue to captivate audiences through their dichotomous nature, […]

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