ID - 131915164 TI - Polish Culture in Britain : Literature and History, 1772 to the Present AU - Bowers, Maggie Ann. AU - Dew, Ben. PY - 2023 SN - 9783031321887 9783031321870 9783031321894 9783031321900 303132188X PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Literature KW - History of Eastern Europe KW - geschiedenis KW - literatuur KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Russia KW - Europe KW - European literature. KW - Russia—History. KW - Europe, Eastern—History. KW - Soviet Union—History. KW - Literature, Modern—18th century. KW - Literature, Modern—19th century. KW - Literature, Modern—20th century. KW - European Literature. KW - Russian, Soviet, and East European History. KW - Eighteenth-Century Literature. KW - Nineteenth-Century Literature. KW - Twentieth-Century Literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131915164 AB - This edited volume explores the historical, cultural and literary legacies of Polish Britain, and their significance for both the British and Polish nations. The focus of the book is twofold. First, it investigates the history of Polish immigration and the ways in which Polish immigrants have conceptualised their own experiences and encounters with Britain and the British. Second, it examines how Poles and Poland have been represented by Anglophone writers in both fictional and non-fictional forms of discourse. Inevitably, these issues are intertwined. Polish experiences of Britain have been shaped, in part, by British ideas about Poland, just as British notions of Poland have been transformed by the emergence of large and culturally active Polish communities in the UK. By studying these issues together, this volume develops a wide-ranging and original analysis of Polish Britain. Maggie Ann Bowers is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is the editor of two special issues focusing on contemporary writing and culture: Journal of Postcolonial Writing’s ‘Imaginary Europes’ and Wasafiri’s ‘North American Native Literature and Literary Activism’. She is also the author of Magic(al) Realism (2004), and the editor of the multilingual volume Convergences and Interferences: Newness in Intercultural Practices (2001). Ben Dew is Associate Professor in Cultural History at the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities, Coventry University, UK. He is the author of Commerce, Finance and Statecraft: Histories of England, 1600-1780 (2018) and the editor of Tea and Commerce (2010) and Historical Writing in Britain (2014). . ER -