Text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko The past is textual. It is constantly being read and reread, written and rewritten. De- and reconstructed, it may be deformed and dismissed or reclaimed and made redemptive. Despite the impossibility of its impartial examination, a spectre of objectivity still looms over many an approach to its analysis, just like the fidelity […]
Text by Magdalena Pypeć I would like to share some information regarding my upcoming publication: “Literary Criticism as Women’s Rights Activism in Anna Jameson’s Shakespeare’s Heroines” included in Female Voices: Forms of Women’s Reading, Self-Education and Writing in Britain 1770‒1830 (Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté 2022). Here is a brief abstract of the chapter: The chapter seeks to examine Anna […]
Text by Paweł Rutkowski In 1712 Samuel Johnson was brought from Lichfield to London by his mother so that he could be touched by Queen Anne and thus healed. When he was later asked about the meeting with the queen, he vaguely recollected “a lady in diamonds and a long black hood”. Apart from that […]
