The historical novel was one of the most widely read genres in popular Victorian literature; however, Victorian writers who set their novels in the past did so not only because of the adventure potential and the colourful ...

Disfigured, exaggerated, and animal-like characters can be considered a staple in American literary naturalism. From Frank Norris’s slow-witted, bullish McTeague to the tortured victim of mob justice in Theodore Dreiser’s ...

Cromwell’s death and the ineffective rule of his son Richard led to the inevitable decision made by the English government – Charles II was to be restored to secure social stability and royal continuity. When in January ...

New women writers of the fin-de-siècle broke loose from conventional Victorian narrative forms, structures and topics in many ways, thus opening a road to modernism. However, it was no easy task for them to deal with ...

One of the events that received extensive and widespread coverage in the English press in the first half of the nineteenth century was the arrest and the subsequent trial of the Irish liberator and emancipist Daniel ...

As Slavoj Žižek claims, Shakespeare’s Richard II clearly shows that the Bard was well familiar with the work of the French philosopher, Jacques Lacan. In my paper I will try to demonstrate that he was also well acquainted ...

Ale has been known in Britain for ages. The Celts produced a porridge-like concoction with various herbs added. The Anglo-Saxons brewed a variety of ales and many of the English terms used in brewing are of Anglo-Saxon ...

The present work shows the origins of the eponymous metaphor of a cloud in a book called The Cloud of Unknowing, a masterpiece written by an anonymous 14th-century English mystic. The book is of great religious and ...

From 9/11 to 7/7 and Beyond outlines the filmic representations of the terrorist attacks in New York, Madrid and London. The author divides the films into five possible categories (TV documentaries, conspiracy documentaries, ...

Churchill, when still a young politician, in October 1907 visited Cyprus in his capacity of under- -secretary of state for the colonies. The island de jure belonged still to the Ottoman Empire, but since 1878 it had been ...