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