Literature, Music, Drama and Performance

Eseje zawarte w tomie omawiają różne aspekty związków między literaturą, muzyką, teatrem i sztukami performatywnymi w osiemnasto- i dziewiętnastowiecznej Wielkiej Brytanii. Autorzy prezentują różne punkty widzenia i metodologie oraz możliwości krytycznej interpretacji omawianych tematów. 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.

From the Editors 7 Part One: Literature and Music in the Long 18th and 19th Centuries Pierre Dubois Music and the Georgian Novel, or the Divorce of Adam and Eve 11 Maria Błaszkiewicz Handel’s Samson and the Art of Adaptation 29 Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys The Aeolian Harp and the Strain of Poetry – Musical Imagery in P.B. Shelley’s Selected Verse 45 Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska Content, Syntax, Punctuation – the Uses of Music in The Old Nurse’s Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 57 Joanna Kokot Disharmonious Harmonies. Music as Theme in Charles Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood 67 Part Two: Interconnections — Literature/Theatre/ Drama/ Performance and Music in the Long 18th and 19th Centuries Jacek Mydla Horace Walpole’s The Mysterious Mother – a Gothic Oedipus? 83 Przemysław Uściński Spectacle of Pity: Hypocrisy and the Performance of Sentiment in Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling 103 Marek Błaszak Elements of Theatrical Performance and Sailors as Performers in Capt. Marryat’s Sea Novels 115 Andrzej Weseliński Let’s Dance a Gavotte, Mr. Frankenstein. Some Remarks on the Theatrical Adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Novel 129 Magdalena Pypeć The Theatrical Trope as a Narrative Device in Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood 143