Mirosława Buchholtz is Professor of American literature and Director of the English Department at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Her research interests include American and Canadian literature, postcolonial studies and auto/biography.Grzegorz Koneczniak is Assistant Professor at the English Department of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. His main research interests include Irish and Canadian drama, literary theory, and digital publishing.

• Contents: Mirosława Buchholtz and Grzegorz Koneczniak: Introduction and Chronology. Dramatis Personae – Katie Sommer: Henry James and Burgess Noakes: The Evolution of an Employer/Servant Relationship during World War I – Max Duperray: Lord Dunsany’s War Tales: Realism and Fantasy – Magda Maksymowicz: Poems from the Home Front: Marian Allen and Vera Brittain – Grzegorz Koneczniak: History Today: Ireland and the Great War – Grzegorz Koneczniak: The Abbey Theatre in the Context of the Great War and Its Centenary: The Past and the Present – Cezary Bronowski: Echoes of the Great War in Italian Literature and Theatre of the First World War and the Interwar Period – Tomasz Waszak: Eccentric Contemporaneity: Gustav Meyrink’s Views on the Great War – Iwona Kotelnicka-Grzybowska: Jews and Poles in the German-Occupied East: Two Scenes from the First World War – Bożenna Chylińska: American Zionism in the World War I Years: Between Academic Discourse and Pragmatic Approach – Dorota Paśko-Koneczniak: Recollections of the First World War by the Old Believers Living in Poland – Katarzyna Szczerbowska-Prusevicius: Fates of the Suppressed: Social Criticism against the Background of the First World War in Miroslav Krleža’s The Croatian God Mars – Mirosława Buchholtz: Disfigurement and Defacement in (Post)World-War-I Art: Francis Derwent Wood, Anna Coleman Ladd, Hannah Höch, and Kader Attia.

Mirosława Buchholtz is Professor of American literature and Director of the English Department at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Her research interests include American and Canadian literature, postcolonial studies and auto/biography.Grzegorz Koneczniak is Assistant Professor at the English Department of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. His main research interests include Irish and Canadian drama, literary theory, and digital publishing.

• Contents: Mirosława Buchholtz and Grzegorz Koneczniak: Introduction and Chronology. Dramatis Personae – Katie Sommer: Henry James and Burgess Noakes: The Evolution of an Employer/Servant Relationship during World War I – Max Duperray: Lord Dunsany’s War Tales: Realism and Fantasy – Magda Maksymowicz: Poems from the Home Front: Marian Allen and Vera Brittain – Grzegorz Koneczniak: History Today: Ireland and the Great War – Grzegorz Koneczniak: The Abbey Theatre in the Context of the Great War and Its Centenary: The Past and the Present – Cezary Bronowski: Echoes of the Great War in Italian Literature and Theatre of the First World War and the Interwar Period – Tomasz Waszak: Eccentric Contemporaneity: Gustav Meyrink’s Views on the Great War – Iwona Kotelnicka-Grzybowska: Jews and Poles in the German-Occupied East: Two Scenes from the First World War – Bożenna Chylińska: American Zionism in the World War I Years: Between Academic Discourse and Pragmatic Approach – Dorota Paśko-Koneczniak: Recollections of the First World War by the Old Believers Living in Poland – Katarzyna Szczerbowska-Prusevicius: Fates of the Suppressed: Social Criticism against the Background of the First World War in Miroslav Krleža’s The Croatian God Mars – Mirosława Buchholtz: Disfigurement and Defacement in (Post)World-War-I Art: Francis Derwent Wood, Anna Coleman Ladd, Hannah Höch, and Kader Attia.

Mirosława Buchholtz is Professor of American literature and Director of the English Department at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Her research interests include American and Canadian literature, postcolonial studies and auto/biography.Grzegorz Koneczniak is Assistant Professor at the English Department of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. His main research interests include Irish and Canadian drama, literary theory, and digital publishing.

• Contents: Mirosława Buchholtz and Grzegorz Koneczniak: Introduction and Chronology. Dramatis Personae – Katie Sommer: Henry James and Burgess Noakes: The Evolution of an Employer/Servant Relationship during World War I – Max Duperray: Lord Dunsany’s War Tales: Realism and Fantasy – Magda Maksymowicz: Poems from the Home Front: Marian Allen and Vera Brittain – Grzegorz Koneczniak: History Today: Ireland and the Great War – Grzegorz Koneczniak: The Abbey Theatre in the Context of the Great War and Its Centenary: The Past and the Present – Cezary Bronowski: Echoes of the Great War in Italian Literature and Theatre of the First World War and the Interwar Period – Tomasz Waszak: Eccentric Contemporaneity: Gustav Meyrink’s Views on the Great War – Iwona Kotelnicka-Grzybowska: Jews and Poles in the German-Occupied East: Two Scenes from the First World War – Bożenna Chylińska: American Zionism in the World War I Years: Between Academic Discourse and Pragmatic Approach – Dorota Paśko-Koneczniak: Recollections of the First World War by the Old Believers Living in Poland – Katarzyna Szczerbowska-Prusevicius: Fates of the Suppressed: Social Criticism against the Background of the First World War in Miroslav Krleža’s The Croatian God Mars – Mirosława Buchholtz: Disfigurement and Defacement in (Post)World-War-I Art: Francis Derwent Wood, Anna Coleman Ladd, Hannah Höch, and Kader Attia.