Contents

Prefatory 7

PAWEŁ STACHURA (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Drawing under the radar: “Earth’s holocaust” and truth
in painting 15

PAULINA AMBROŻY (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
On the unconcealedness of the sketch in “The prophetic pictures” 37

MAREK PARYŻ (University of Warsaw)
Roger Malvin’s corpse 57

MAREK WILCZYŃSKI (University of Gdańsk / University of Warsaw)
Between memory and tradition; or, “Legends of the
Province-House” 69

JOSEPH KUHN (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
The Robin Molineux of Lionel Trilling 85

JANUSZ SEMRAU (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań / University of Social Sciences, Warsaw)
What if “Wakefield” were (about) a woman? 101

KATARZYNA KUCZMA (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Hawthorne’s natural order of self-reflexivity 127

DAVID MALCOLM (University of Gdańsk)
Is there coherence and cohesion in the 1837 volume of
Twice-told tales? 157

Index of titles 173

Notes on contributors 175