text by Dorota Babilas Cats have experienced a considerable growth in status as companion animals and domestic pets since the nineteenth century. Regarded originally as largely untameable creatures, tolerated because of their function as pest control, they have been welcomed into the parlours and praised for their cleanliness, grace, and vivaciousness while retaining some of […]
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 Dorota Osińska Within the recent scholarship concerning visual arts in nineteenth century Britain, there is a growing interest in the relationship between creativity, economy, and gender. Frequently, this research concerns the Arts and Crafts Movement (and its different manifestations in England, Scotland and Ireland), the Pre-Raphaelites or late-Victorian Aestheticism. In contrast, Nineteenth-Century Women […]
