Exploring History

Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies of the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests include Victorian and Neo-Victorian studies. She co-edited We the Neo-Victorians. Perspectives on Literature and Culture (2013).

• Contents: Dorota Babilas: Queen Anne’s Cultural Afterlife – Oleg Y. Polyakov: Literary Criticism in English Miscellany Periodicals (1730s-1750s) – Paweł Rutkowski: Antiquaries at War: Witchcraft and Superstition in Early English Ethnographical Writings – Grażyna Bystydzieńska: Some Tendencies in Polish Translations of Eighteenth-Century English Literature – Stoddard Martin: Byron: The Outcast Playwright – Maria Popova: Victorian Englishness and G.M. Hopkins – Barbara Kowalik: Foreignness in Katherine Mansfield’s Bliss and Other Stories – Randall Stevenson: «Hoarse Oaths that Kept our Courage Straight»: The Great War, Language, and Silence – Katarzyna Kociołek: Politics and Fashion: British Parliamentary Debate on Utility Suits – Mirosław Miernik: The Problem of Deviance in Subcultural Studies – Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko: From Hell via London to Paris or Łódź: Rewriting the «Jack the Ripper» Setting.