https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Malgorzata_Nitka<\/span><\/a><\/p>\nI am an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Literary Studies, University of Silesia, Poland. My research interests cover British literature and culture of the 18th and 19th century, particularly social and cultural aspects of the Industrial Revolution. In my recent publications I examine texts of such writers as Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, or Charles Reade.<\/span><\/p>\nMajor publications:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nBooks<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Railway Defamiliarisation. The Rise of Passengerhood in the Nineteenth Century<\/em>.Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu \u015al\u0105skiego, 2006.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Writing of the Heart and the Epistolary Form. The Case of Richardson\u2019s <\/em>Clarissa (Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu \u015al\u0105skiego, 1997.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Fire and Ice. <\/em>The Dialectic of Order and Chaos<\/em> (Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu \u015al\u0105skiego, 2008. [Co-editor Piotr Dziedzic]<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201eZobaczy\u0107 \u015bwiat w ziarenku piasku \u2026\u201d O przyja\u017ani, pami\u0119ci i wyobra\u017ani. Tom jubileuszowy dla Profesora Tadeusza S\u0142awka <\/em>(Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu \u015al\u0105skiego, 2006. [Co-editor Ewa Borkowska]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Selected chapters and articles:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n- \u201cMachinery, Mud, and the Metropolis: The Portrayal of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a in W\u0142adys\u0142aw Reymont\u2019s The Promised Land<\/em>,\u201d in: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies<\/em>. Edited by Jeremy Tambling. Palgrave MacMillan, 2022, 1221-1229.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cSuburbs in Wilkie Collins\u2019s Fiction,\u201d in: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. <\/em>Edited by Jeremy Tambling. Palgrave MacMillan, 2022, 1743-1751.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cArnold Bennett\u2019s Romance of the Suburbs,\u201d in: Landscapes and Townscapes in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture<\/em>. Edited by Gra\u017cyna Bystydzie\u0144ska and Magdalena Pype\u0107. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2021, 89-100.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201c\u2018Everybody\u2019s private carriage.\u2019 Omnibus Travel in Victorian Literature,\u201d Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature<\/em> . Vol. 8 (2020), 48-58.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cArt and argument in Charles Reade\u2019s Hard Cash<\/em> and Wilkie Collins\u2019s Heart and Science<\/em>,\u201d in: From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria: Readings in 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture. Vol. 6. Edited by Gra\u017cyna Bystydzie\u0144ska and Emma Harris. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2018, 229-237.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cDeath and the Railway in Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son\u201d in: Disease, Death, Decay in Literatures and Cultures.<\/em> Edited by Ryszard W. Wolny and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, Opole: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego, 2018, 123-137.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201c\u02bdThe advancing eclipse of the brain\u2019: Sensation, Detection, and the Unconscious in Wilkie Collins\u2019s The Law and The Lady<\/em>, \u201c in: Gothic, Sensation, Detection in 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture<\/em>. Edited by Gra\u017cyna Bystydzie\u0144ska. Warszawa: Pracownia \u201eO\u015brodek Studi\u00f3w Brytyjskich,\u201d2017, 63-72.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201c\u02bdThough I may be a detective, I am still a woman\u2019: Duty and Doing Good in Andrew Forrester’s „The Female Detective,\u201d in: Gothic, Sensation, Detection in 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture.<\/em> Edited by Gra\u017cyna Bystydzie\u0144ska. Warszawa: Pracownia \u201eO\u015brodek Studi\u00f3w Brytyjskich,\u201d2017, 167-178.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cA Tour of Reading: \u02bbThe Man of the Crowd,\u2019\u201d in: Polytropos. <\/em>Na drogach Tadeusza S\u0142awka. Tracing Tadeusz S\u0142awek\u2019s Routes. <\/em>Edited by Piotr Bogalecki, et al. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu \u015al\u0105skiego, 2016, 475-489.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cIn the Company of Power. Wealth, Society and Speculation in Anthony Trollope\u2019s The<\/em> Way We Live Now,\u201d <\/em>in: Money, Banks and Business in British and American Literature, Culture and Language<\/em>. Edited by Marek B\u0142aszczak. Warszawa: CeDeWu Sp. z o.o., 2015, 67-87.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201c\u2018So many pages a day.\u2019 Writing, Compulsion, and Modernity,\u201d in: The Self industry: Therapy and Fiction<\/em>. Edited by Agnieszka Wo\u017aniakowska, Jaros\u0142aw Szurman, Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowski Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu \u015al\u0105skiego, 2015,\u00a0 228-239.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cInterior Design in Elizabeth Gaskell\u2019s North and South.\u201d In: From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria. Readings in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture. <\/em>Vol. 4. Edited by Gra\u017cyna Bystydzie\u0144ska i Emma Harris.Warszawa: O\u015brodek Studi\u00f3w Brytyjskich, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2014, 399-406.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cSense of Duty and Sense Deception in Dickens\u2019s and Grabi\u0144ski\u2019s Railway Stories,\u201d in: Reflections on \/ of Dickens. <\/em>Edited by Ewa Kujawska-Lis and Anna Krawczyk-\u0141askarzewska. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, 85-93.<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201c\u2018The Jungle Rises Far Above Our Heads\u2019: On Reading Sensation Novels,\u201d in: Surplus of Culture. Sense, Common-sense, Non-sense<\/em>. Edited by Ewa Borkowska, Tomasz Burzy\u0144ski. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, 39-48.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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