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Problemy społeczne w gotyckiej przestrzeni dziewiętnastowiecznej metropolii w świetle powieści The Mysteries of London George’a W.M. Reynoldsa

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Michalska M.
Kwartalnik Historyczny
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2019
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vol. 126
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issue 1
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Tekst poświęcony jest dziewiętnastowiecznej przestrzeni Londynu oraz nierównościom społecznym widzianym w świetle sensacyjnej, taniej powieści zeszytowej The Mysteries of London. Popularne dzieło stanowiło nie tylko produkt rodzącej się kultury masowej, ale i ciekawy dokument społeczny. Jego autor ukazał w nim radykalną diagnozę istniejących nierówności, całość zaś przyoblekł w niejednoznaczny garnitur powieści grozy. The text deals with the nineteenth-century space of London and social inequalities seen through the prism of G. W. M. Reynolds’ penny part serialized novel, The Mysteries of London. The popular novel was not only a product of emerging mass culture, but also an interesting social document. Its author presented a radical diagnosis of existing social inequalities in the form of a city mysteries novel.
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Heart of Darkness: Piercing the Silence

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Khan A.
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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2014
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issue 23/1
73-82
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‘Dead silence’ can resonate with more meaning than the spoken word, the absence of oral discourse signaling the presence of an unsettling subject, as Edward Said commented in Culture and Imperialism. Heart of Darkness pierces this silence through its assessment of Victorian society’s corrosive capitalist core. The novella’s symbolism and collapse of binaries anticipates modernism, and these techniques allow Conrad to censure white men, both those with real and petty power; and white women, who are depicted as colonialism’s passive or active enablers. This portrayal ultimately condemns the characters’ brutality even as it expresses cynicism about humanity’s potential for compassion.
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