"History is Mostly Repair and Revenge"

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 - Lukasz 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.

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 Poznä (Poland).