«History is Mostly Repair and Revenge»

The Editor: Liliana Sikorska; Ph.D. in 1994, D. Litt. in 1996; visiting scholar at the University of Florida, Brown University and the University of California Los Angeles; visiting professor at the American University, Washington, DC; author or co-author of seven books on medieval English and Irish literature; head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics at the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań (Poland).

• Contents: Liliana Sikorska: Adam Thorpe. An introduction –Adam Thorpe: Turning the confusion into art: History and fiction – Sabine Heinz: Major developments of the English literatures in Ireland and Wales and their interplay with history – Frank Swannack: The abuse of History in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine part one and Spenser’s A view of the state of Ireland – Neus Rotger: The uses of history in the early Gothic romance – Joanna Maciulewicz: «Questions of things done in Publick as well as in Private»: The analysis of Daniel Defoe’s Memoirs of a cavalier – Maria Fengler: Revising the rising: Irish history in Roddy Doyle’s A star called Henry – Łukasz Giezek: Eternal past: Peter Ackroyd’s rewriting of history in The Lambs of London – Ryszard Bartnik: (Im)possibility of escape - traumatic residues of the past in the post-Troubles Northern Irish novel – Marcin Cieniuch: To will one myth out, to will a different one into histoty - contemporary Irish history written through the classics in the poetry of Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney – Grzegorz Czemiel: «History’s broken mirrors»: Ciaran Carson’s and Paul Muldoon’s redressing of the past – Liliana Sikorska: «The free and easy»: An interview with Anne Haverty.