Michał Choiński and Małgorzata Cierpisz are Assistant Professors in the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

• Michał Choiński, Małgorzata Cierpisz - Introduction: The Past Informs the Future, the Future Informs the PastPART 1: HISTORICAL NOVELCarolyne Larrington - George Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, HBO’s Game of Thrones and (Neo)MedievalismIb Johansen - Narrative Cross-currents and Textual CrossfiresPetr Chalupský - The (In)authenticity of Invented History in Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody ProjectKinga Latała - Modern Representations of War-time Executions in William Brodrick’s A Whispered Name and John Boyne’s The AbsolutistMarek Pawlicki - “The Fable Splits at the Seams”: An Exploration of Imagination and Myth in William Golding’s The Scorpion GodBarbara Klonowska - From Trauma to Love, from Experiment to Tradition: Contemporary British Historical Romances and HistoriographyRachael Sumner - Historical Vanishing Points in Hilary Mantel’s Novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the BodiesBeata Kiersnowska - New Sporting Woman – A New Ideal of Womanhood in Late Victorian England?PART 2: AMERICAN SOUTHRobert H. Brinkmeyer - W.J. Cash and Hitler: The Mind of the South and the European CrisisAnna Łozińska - The True and the Degenerate – Images of Native Americans and the Natural Environment in William Faulkner’s Short StoriesTodd Hagstette - Honor, Religion, and Domesticity: New Perspectives on Southern Dueling in Augusta Jane Evans’s St. ElmoKatarzyna Jasiewicz - The Old South and a New Meaning: Kate Chopin’s Stories vs. Patricia Yaeger’s Dirt and DesireSzymon Wnuk - Through the Ruins of an Orchard: Fertility Myth in Cormac McCarthy’s The RoadPART 3: GENERAL AMERICAN STUDIESGrzegorz Kotecki - “Deafened by the Roar of Its Own History”: Communal Remembering and Collective Forgetting in Toni Morrison’s ParadiseTadeusz Lewandowski - Zitkála-Šá’s Old Indian Legends: A New PerspectiveRichard Thomas Savino - The ‘Other’ in Deliver Us from EvilJoanna Durczak - Contrary Farmers and the Literature of Agri/cultural ResistanceJoanna Antoniak - Different Images of Father in Jonathan Safran Foer’s FictionAnna Białkowska - “Lee and the Boys” – A Queer Look at William S. BurroughsZygmunt Mazur - Inhabiting the Moment in Time: W.S. Merwin’s The Shadow of SiriusAnna Svĕtlíková - Jonathan Edwards, John Dennis, and the Religious Sublime: A Consideration of Edwardsean TerrorPART 4: BRITISH PROSEAnna Bugajska - The Anxiety of the Lion Influence: The Place of the Lion and NarniaSabina Sosin - Challenging the Codex = Challenging the Reader? Motivations behind B.S. Johnson’s Aesthetical Choices in The UnfortunatesOlga Glebova - Doris Lessing and J.M. Coetzee in the Context of Contemporary Celebrity CulturePART 5: DRAMATomasz Więcek - The Conflict between Ecclesiastical Courts and the Royal Justice in the Late Medieval Passion PlaysRowland Cotterill - “New Heaven, New Earth”: Some Promised Ends and Brave New Worlds of Shakespearian TheatreJurgita Astrauskienė - Repartee and Quip as Modes of Literary Wit in John Webster’s drama The Duchess of MalfiPhilipp Reisner - Performing Theology: David Adjmi’s Satirical TragediesPART 6: MULTIMODALITYMariano D’Ambrosio - Dynamic Patterns in Contemporary Multimodal Printed Novels: The Exploration, the Quest, the Journey, the EncounterIoana Zirra - Digital Tracing of the “Parallactic Drift of the Socalled Fixed Stars” in James Joyce’s Ulysses