The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Other East

Chapter 2 ‘That Woman, Lovely Woman! May Have Dominion’: Catherine the Great and Poland

Chapter 3 ‘A Patriot’s Furrow’d Cheek’: British Responses to the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising

Chapter 4 Hero between Genres: Jane Porter’s Thaddeus of Warsaw

Chapter 5 ‘Transform’d, Not Inly Alter’d’: The Resurrection of Kościuszko and the Arrival of Mazeppa

Chapter 7 Arms and the Circassian Woman

Chapter 8 Picturing Will: Middlemarch and the Victorian Genealogy of the Polish Hero

Chapter 9 Afterword: Conrad’s Poles