A Dark Transfusion: The Polish Literary Response to Early English Gothic - Lowczanin, Agnieszka
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This book fills the gap in research of the early stages of literary Gothicism and examines its transfer from England, via French, to Poland-Lithuania in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The focus is on the oeuvre of Anna Mostowska, the first professional female writer of the Gothic in the region, and the extent to which it was shaped both by local literary tradition and political circumstances, and by Gothic fiction of Ann Radcliffe. This volume aims to redraw the maps of early Gothic by providing new insights into our understanding of the routes and meaning of its cross-cultural dissemination. …mehr

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This book fills the gap in research of the early stages of literary Gothicism and examines its transfer from England, via French, to Poland-Lithuania in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The focus is on the oeuvre of Anna Mostowska, the first professional female writer of the Gothic in the region, and the extent to which it was shaped both by local literary tradition and political circumstances, and by Gothic fiction of Ann Radcliffe. This volume aims to redraw the maps of early Gothic by providing new insights into our understanding of the routes and meaning of its cross-cultural dissemination.
Autorenporträt
Agnieszka ¿owczanin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of British Literature and Culture at the University of ¿ód¿, Poland, where she teaches courses on British literature, culture and history. She specialises in eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries fiction, focusing on the politics, poetics and paradoxes of the Gothic. With Dorota Wi¿niewska she co-edited the volume All that Gothic (2014).