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.

Prof. dr hab. Grażyna Bystydzieńska – full professor at the Department of British Literature at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw.

Dr hab. Magdalena Pypeć – assistant professor at the British Literature Department at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw.

Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska, https://orcid.org/
Content, Syntax, Punctuation – the Uses of Music in The Old Nurse’s Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323540885.pp.57-66

Joanna Kokot, https://orcid.org/0000-00024648-3402
Disharmonious Harmonies. Music as Theme in Charles Dickens’sThe Mystery of Edwin Drood
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323540885.pp.67-80

Marek Błaszak, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2359-1563
Elements of Theatrical Performance and Sailors as Performers in Capt. Marryat’s Sea Novels
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323540885.pp.115-128

Maria Błaszkiewicz, https://orcid.org/
Handel’s Samson and the Art of Adaptation
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323540885.pp.29-44

Jacek Mydla, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1240-286X
Horace Walpole’s The Mysterious Mother – a Gothic Oedipus?
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323540885.pp.83-102

Andrzej Weseliński, https://orcid.org/
Let’s Dance a Gavotte, Mr. Frankenstein. Some Remarks on the Theatrical Adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Novel
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323540885.pp.129-142

Pierre Dubois, https://orcid.org/
Music and the Georgian Novel, or the Divorce of Adam and Eve
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323540885.pp.11-28

Przemysław Uściński, https://orcid.org/
Spectacle of Pity: Hypocrisy and the Performance of Sentiment in Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323540885.pp.103-114

Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys, https://orcid.org/
The Aeolian Harp and the Strain of Poetry – Musical Imagery in P.B. Shelley’s Selected Verse
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323540885.pp.45-56

Magdalena Pypeć, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4361-0178
The Theatrical Trope as a Narrative Device in Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323540885.pp.143-158