TABLE OF CONTENTS
Wit P i e t r z a k Breaking up the language: the struggle with(in) modernity in J.H.
Prynne’s Biting the Air. . . . 5 Dominika O r a m u s Two exercises in consilience: Annie Dillard and Kurt Vonnegut on
the Galapagos Archipelago as the archetypal Darwinian setting . . . . 19 Joanna C h o j n o w s k a ‘‘It came up all the time, like a fixation”: the ubiquity of
racially-based prejudice as presented in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia . . . . 31 Kamil M i c h t a The gardening fallacy: J.M. Coetzee’s Michael K as a parody of
Voltaire’s Candide . . . . 41 Joanna J o d ł o w s k a Aldous Huxley’s early novels: an unfolding dialogue about pain 51 Debbie L e l e k i s ‘‘Pretty maids all in a row”: power and the female child in Frances
Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden . . . . 63 Almas K h a n Heart of Darkness: piercing the silence . . . . 73 Anna B u d z i a k Parodic and post-classic, British Decadent Aestheticism re-
approached . . . . 83 Lucyna K r a w c z y k - Z˙ y w k o The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde: a Victorian villain and
a Victorian detective revisited . . . . 95 Małgorzata Ł u c z y n´ s k a - H o ł d y s ‘‘Darkling I listen”: melancholia, self and
creativity in Romantic nightingale poems . . . . 105 Klaudia Ł a˛c z y n´ s k a From masque to masquerade: monarchy and art in Andrew
Marvell’s poems . . . . 115 Abhishek S a r k a r Thomas Dekker and the spectre of underworld jargon . . . . 129
