{"product_id":"john-bull-and-the-continent-9783631653203","title":"John Bull and the Continent","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEver since John Arbuthnot published \u003ci\u003eThe History of John Bull \u003c\/i\u003ein 1712, the figure of John Bull has stereotypically personified the best and the worst traits of the British (or English) national character. The present work takes the eponymous juxtaposition as an incentive to study the variety of multi-faceted contacts between the two sides. Given the recent attempts at a re-definition of the relationship between Britain and the Continent – best visible in the turmoil over Britain’s EU membership – the results of the research will hopefully stimulate discussion about John Bull’s ever-changing presence within or without the Continent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Wojciech Jasiakiewicz:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHenry VIII and the Polish question – Małgorzata Rutkowska:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e«Strangely unknown in England»: Poland in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century British travel accounts – Magdalena Ożarska:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAustenian inspirations for Maria Wirtemberska’s «Original Romance»: \u003ci\u003eMalvina, or the Heart’s Intuition \u003c\/i\u003e(1816) – Miłosz K. Cybowski:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eFirst and last refuge: France and Britain as centres of the Polish Great Emigration – Michał Borodo:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBilly and Casp: Rediscovering forgotten translations in Polish-English cultural exchanges – Tomasz Niedokos:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eClose encounters with John Bull: Polish narratives of disappointment with England – Douglas Root:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eSamuel Johnson and Voltaire’s «Petty Cavils» on English literature – Krystyna Urbisz Golkowska:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eIdentity renegotiation in Charlote Brontë’s \u003ci\u003eVillette\u003c\/i\u003e – Dariusz Pestka:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe influence of continental symbolism, impressionism and post-impressionism on British writers and painters – Adam Aleksandrowicz:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eCrossing the Channel with Julian Barnes: A brief (hi)story of fulfilment, misapprehension and disillusionment – Maciej Wieczorek:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eLiving through the benign nightmares? (Re)contextualising in-yer-face theatre – Stephen Dewsbury:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eTwo world wars and one World Cup: Attitudes and expressions to «the Continent» in John King’s \u003ci\u003eEngland Away\u003c\/i\u003e – Jakub Lipski:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRadcliffe’s \u003ci\u003ecapricci\u003c\/i\u003e: The prisons of the Inquisition in \u003ci\u003eThe Italian\u003c\/i\u003e – Daniel Evers:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e«My heart is sore \/ For my own land’s sins»: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s relationship with Italy.","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044281057623,"sku":"9783631653203","price":45.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783631653203.jpg?v=1750961122","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/john-bull-and-the-continent-9783631653203","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}