Literature, Music, Drama and Performance (EBOOK)

The essays in this volume explore various aspects of creative interconnections between literature, music, theatre and performance in 18th and 19th-century Britain. The authors adopt diverse critical standpoints and methodologies, demonstrating numerous interpretative possibilities of the themes.

Keywords: British literature, British culture, 18th-century, 19th-century, theatre, music.

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PhD assoc. prof. Grażyna Bystydzieńska – full professor at the Department of British Literature at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw.

Assoc. prof. Magdalena Pypeć – is Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. Her publications include a monograph on Tennyson’s The Princess (Peter Lang, 2016). She has co-edited two volumes of Texts and Contexts. Studies in 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture series: Literature, Music, Drama and Performance and Landscapes and Townscapes (Warsaw University Press, 2019, 2021). Her most recent publications are a chapter “Opium as a Keyword in Dickens’s Novels” included in Some Keywords in Dickens (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage, 2021), and “Literary Criticism as Women’s Rights Activism in Anna Jameson’s Shakespeare’s Heroines” included in Female Voices: Forms of Women’s Reading, Self-Education and Writing in Britain 1770-1830 (Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2022).