Papers by Anna Gutowska
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2016
Znak Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego występuje w trzech wersjach językowych: -polskiej -angielskiej -ł... more Znak Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego występuje w trzech wersjach językowych: -polskiej -angielskiej -łacińskiej Nie można tłumaczyć znaku na inne języki.
Take a woman\u27s head, stuff it with a smattering of philosophy and literature chopped small, an... more Take a woman\u27s head, stuff it with a smattering of philosophy and literature chopped small, and with false notions of society baked hard, let it hang over a desk a few hours every day, and serve up hot in feeble English, when not required . (Eliot 1992:305) \u27Silly Novels by Lady Novelists\u27, George Eliot\u27s vitriolic overview of popular novels of the 1850s, which is the source of the mock-recipe above, was published in 1856, shortly before Eliot started writing her first work of fiction, \u27The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton\u27 . More than ten years then passed before she began work on Middlemarch, her fifth novel, so it would certainly be far-fetched to assume that there is a direct connection between the opinions she voiced in \u27Silly Novels\u27 and the composition of Middlemarch. However, in my essay I am going to argue that the plot of George Eliot\u27s masterpiece can in fact be seen as a reaction against stereotypical novelistic plot devices which she h...
The Books on the Floss : An Analysis of Maggie Tulliver’s Reading
Edited by Grażyna Bystydzieńska. British Studies Centre, University of Warsaw (2017).
Between 'Silly Novels' and Vegetation Myths: George Eliot'sSubversive Use of the Two Suitors Convention in Middlemarch
Between ‘Silly Novels’ and vegetation myths : George Eliot’s subversive use of the two suitors co... more Between ‘Silly Novels’ and vegetation myths : George Eliot’s subversive use of the two suitors convention in Middlemarch
Th e article seeks to analyse the deployment of the two suitors formula, which was perfected by J... more Th e article seeks to analyse the deployment of the two suitors formula, which was perfected by Jane Austen (and thus is sometimes called “the Austenian romance”) in a somewhat underresearched novel by George Eliot entitled Felix Holt: the Radical. Th e article presents the formula and its consequences for characterisation and analyses the three main characters in Eliot’s novel with regard to the convention, paying special attention to the contrasting characterisation of the two romantic rivals, Harold Transome and Felix Holt, and to the characterisation of the novel’s heroine. Th e article also analyses George Eliot’s references to the heroine’s reading tastes, which can be seen both as an element of characterisation and an interpretative clue, allowing careful readers to predict the development of the plot.
George Eliot był kobietą : [ George Eliot was a woman ]
Fałszerz Jako Bohater Romantyczny : Przypadek Thomasa Chattertona : [ The forger as a romantic hero : the case of Thomas Chatterton ]
The article seeks to present the career of Thomas Chatterton, an eighteenth-century literary forg... more The article seeks to present the career of Thomas Chatterton, an eighteenth-century literary forger, whose title to fame lies in an attempt to hoodwink Horace Walpole and to persuade him to publish ...
Transmedial storyworlds
Intermedial Studies, 2021
Transmediation
Intermedial Studies, 2021
A feminist Bildungsroman or a cautionary tale? : Female characters’ arcs in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins (1893)
A feminist Bildungsroman or a cautionary tale? : Female characters’ arcs in Sarah Grand’s The Hea... more A feminist Bildungsroman or a cautionary tale? : Female characters’ arcs in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins (1893)
The New Review, 2011
How to turn a romance into a novel? Where you find a castle, a giant and a midnight murder, put a... more How to turn a romance into a novel? Where you find a castle, a giant and a midnight murder, put a house, a father and a marriage. C.L. Pitt, Satire on the Age (1810) Like many other Victorian novelists, notably Charles Dickens and W.M. Thackeray, George
Acta Philologica, 2016
The article seeks to analyse the deployment of the two suitors formula, which was perfected by Ja... more The article seeks to analyse the deployment of the two suitors formula, which was perfected by Jane Austen (and thus is sometimes called " the Austenian romance ") in a somewhat under-researched novel by George Eliot entitled Felix Holt: the Radical. The article presents the formula and its consequences for characterisation and analyses the three main characters in Eliot's novel with regard to the convention, paying special attention to the contrasting characterisation of the two romantic rivals, Harold Transome and Felix Holt, and to the characterisation of the novel's heroine. The article also analyses George Eliot's references to the heroine's reading tastes, which can be seen both as an element of characterisation and an interpretative clue, allowing careful readers to predict the development of the plot.
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Roczniki Muzeum Narodowego w Kielcach [The Annual Review of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Kielce], 2016
Dr Anna Gutowska UJK FAŁSZERZ JAKO BOHATER ROMANTYCZNY -PRZYPADEK THOMASA CHATTERTONA STRESZCZENI... more Dr Anna Gutowska UJK FAŁSZERZ JAKO BOHATER ROMANTYCZNY -PRZYPADEK THOMASA CHATTERTONA STRESZCZENIE Artykuł przedstawia sylwetkę angielskiego osiemnastowiecznego fałszerza literackiego Thomasa Chattertona. Jego tytułem do sławy było "odkrycie" (w istocie napisanych przez samego Chattertona) wierszy średniowiecznego mnicha, którymi młody poeta usiłował zainteresować znanego kolekcjonera Horacego Walpole'a. Kiedy mistyfikacja została zdemaskowana, Chatterton popełnił samobójstwo w wieku zaledwie osiemnastu lat. Jego tragiczna śmierć stała się inspiracją dla wielu dziewiętnastowiecznych twórców (głównie pisarzy i poetów), a także dla znanego i często reprodukowanego obrazu wiktoriańskiego malarza akademisty Henry'ego Wallisa. Artykuł analizuje "pośmiertny żywot" Chattertona w kontekście wyobrażeń na temat roli i zachowania bohatera romantycznego. SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: Chatterton, Thomas; Walpole, Horace; fałszerstwo literackie; literatura brytyjska XVIII wieku, poezja romantyczna; Romantyzm.
The George Eliot Review, 2016
Anglica: An International Journal of the English Studies, 2016
In line with recent critical approaches to George Eliot that increasingly question her reputation... more In line with recent critical approaches to George Eliot that increasingly question her reputation as a realist writer, the article seeks to analyse the plot and characterisation in George Eliot's Felix Holt: The Radical (1866) with reference to popular (and especially sensational and melodramatic) tropes often found in fiction of the period. The article discusses such plot elements as the trial scene in which the heroine gives testimony in order to help the hero, the heroine's renouncement of her fortune, and the figures of a fallen woman (treated as a cautionary example by the heroine) and of a mysterious suitor with a troubled past.
Acta Philologica, 2005
in the mid-1870s wrote in his Autobiography:
It is the power of the constructive imagination of such classical writers that we pay tribute whe... more It is the power of the constructive imagination of such classical writers that we pay tribute when we honour their works as models of history long after we have ceased to credit their learning or the specific explanation that they offered for the facts they had sought to account for. (White 1978: 118) So says Hayden White in Tropics of Discourse. In my paper I would like to analyse the devices used by Dickens and Eliot to create their "fictions of history"their presentations of historical events. Both these novels are centred around the theme of revolution. Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, written in 1859 and by far the better known of the two, depicts the horrors of the French Revolution and tries to diagnose its causes. George Eliot's Romola, written after painstaking research in the years 1861-1862 depicts a revolt in late fifteenth century Florence.
Book chapters by Anna Gutowska
Things and Images in 18th and 19th century British Literature, 2017
Edited by Grażyna Bystydzieńska. British Studies Centre, University of Warsaw (2017).
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