The Rhetoric of Imperial Gothic in The Mystery of Edwin Drood

text by Magdalena Pypeć Published at the outset of heightened British imperial activity, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (hereafter referred to as Edwin Drood) contains more colonial references than any other Dickens’s work. All these references situate the “ancient English Cathedral town” from the novel within the larger diverse imperial context and the anxieties that […]

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Spectres of Gothic Literature: Reflections, Reworkings, Reinventions, Or Warsaw Literary Meetings Rising Stars 3

text by Dorota Osińska Warsaw Literary Meetings have been an integral part of our research. This series of one-day workshops is organised to generate discussions and encourage cooperation among scholars with diverse research interests. Each workshop focuses on a specific theme in the literary and cultural life of the 18th and 19th centuries, examining the […]

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John Keats Conference 2024

text by Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys Apart from many other good reasons, there is a particularly good motivation to visit London in May: the annual John Keats Conference, which I have had the pleasure of attending three times by now. The conference is organized by the John Keats Foundation and held at an extraordinary place: Keats House […]

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