Visions and Revisions

Collected under the theme of Visions and Revisions, the papers included in this volume examine different aspects of literature and culture of the Anglophone world. The first part gathers articles dealing with poetry of such epochs as the seventeenth century, the Victorian era and the modern times. Part two focuses on prose works representing such conventions and modes as the romance, the Gothic novel, the condition of England novel, Victorian and neo-Victorian fiction, the science fiction novel and gay fiction. Part three concerns various aspects of British and American culture, including the new media, drama and journalism, and advertising. In its diversity the volume reflects the dynamics of change in literature and culture, enabling the readers to investigate the multifaceted canon.

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Grzegorz Czemiel, Justyna Galant and Marta Komsta are Assistant Professors at the Department of English Studies, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland.
Anna Kedra-Kardela and Aleksandra Kedzierska are both Associate Professors at the Department of English Studies, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

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Contents: Agnieszka Romanowska: «Something to act out on a stage»: Theatrum Mundi in John Donne's Poetry - Ewa Mlynarczyk: Alfred Tennyson's Visions of the Otherworlds and the Vocation of the Poet - Jacek Wisniewski: Ecocriticism and Romantic Ecology: Gilbert White and John Clare - Aleksandra Kedzierska: War as Encounter: The Christmas Truce 1914 - Monika Kocot: Trickster Discourse: The Figure of Whittrick in Edwin Morgan's Writing - Anna Walczuk: Art in the Poetry of Elizabeth Jennings - Grzegorz Czemiel: Visual Displacement and Shifts of Tone: On the Transformative Powers of Poetry in Recent Collections by Sinéad Morrissey and Zoë Skoulding - Jerzy Jarniewicz: Words, Pictures and Windows: From Alberti to Derek Mahon - Philip V. Allingham: Re-Reading Great Expectations and Re-Thinking Its Genres: The Programmes of Illustration from 1860 through 1910 - Aleksandra Tryniecka: The Bakhtinian Polyphony of Voices in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White - Aleksandra Krajewska: The Vision of Brotherhood of Man in Charles Kingsley's Novel Alton Locke - Marlena Marciniak: The Strange Case of Mr. Paul Ferroll, A Gentleman and Murderer: The Victorian Vision of Gentlemanliness Revised - Katarzyna Sokolowska: The Dionysian in Virginia Woolf 's Between the Acts - Andrzej Slawomir Kowalczyk: «Destructive delight»: Conceptual Blending in Charles Williams's Vision of Satanic Rituals in War in Heaven - Jacek Mydla: *Revisiting the Gothic Plot: Past-Oriented Suspense in Daphne du Maurier's *Rebecca - Anna Kedra-Kardela: The Gothic Space Revisited - Barbara Klonowska: Re-Visioning of the Romance Convention in the Novels by Sarah Waters - Marta Komsta: Mother London: Peter Ackroyd's Three Brothers - Marcin Sroczynski: «Doomed Queens» in a Changing Environment: Andrew Holleran's and Alan Hollinghurst's Literary Visions of Gay Clubbing Communities - Wojciech Nowicki: How It Was, How It Is: Literary Histories across the Decades - Kornelia Boczkowska: New Perspectives in the U.S. Space-Oriented Philosophy: Albert Harrison's American Cosmism as a Variation of the Russian Cosmist Thought - Anna Bugajska: Pirate Neverland: Revisioning Pirates in Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter Pan in Scarlet - Edyta Frelik: Brushed off Words: On Artists' Writings - Justyna Galant: Filming the Experience of Gilead: Volker Schlöndorff's The Handmaid's Tale - Pawel Hamera: «John Bull and Erin, the first a stout healthy boy and the latter his sister a very promising girl»: Figaro in London and the Depiction of Ireland in the 1830s - Pawel Kaptur: The Political Siding of Thomas Hobbes: Revision of Power in Leviathan - Eliza Marków: Puppies Sell: A Study of Selected Advertising Campaigns Featuring Animals - Agnieszka Matysiak: In the (Neo)Baroque Universe of Looped Voices: Lanford Wilson's Fugue Spectacle in The Hot l Baltimore - Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska: Revising the Traditional Model of Journalism in the Context of Digital Media - Katarzyna Pisarska: The Dystopian Grotesque in Enki Bilal's The Carnival of Immortals - Aleksandra Szczypa: Prospero Re-Imagined: The Character of Prospero in Modern Science Fiction - Jadwiga Uchman: Catastrophe in Philosophy (Aristotle), Mathematics (René Thom) and Drama (Tom Stoppard and Samuel Beckett).