Małgorzata Nitka is an Assistant Professor in the Institute Literary Studies, University of Silesia, Poland. Her research interests cover English literature and culture of the 19th century, particularly social and cultural aspects of the Industrial Revolution. Her major publication in this field is Railway Defamiliarisation. The Rise of Passengerhood in the Nineteenth Century (2006), an analysis of cultural changes following the development of the railway in the 19th century. She also published articles on Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Reade, Arnold Bennett, Anthony Trollope as well as Andrew Ure.
Recent publications:
“Arnold Bennett’s romance of the suburbs.” 2021. In Landscapes and Townscapes in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture, edited by Grażyna Bystydzieńska and Magdalena Pypeć, 89-100. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
“’Everybody’s private carriage’: Omnibus Travel in Victorian Literature.” 2020. Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature, vol. 8: 48-58.
“Machinery, Mud, and the Metropolis: the Portrayal of Łódź in Władysław Reymont’s The Promised Land.” 2018- . The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Living Edition, edited by Jeremy Tambling. Springer.
“Suburbs in Wilkie Collins’s fiction.” 2018- . The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Living Edition, edited by Jeremy Tambling. Springer.
“Art and argument in Charles Reade’s Hard Cash and Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science. 2018. In From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria: Readings in 18th and 19th century British Literature and Culture, vol. 6, edited by Grażyna Bystydzieńska and Emma Harris, 229-237. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
“Death and the Railway in Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son.” 2018. In Disease, Death, Decay in Literatures and Cultures, edited by Ryszard W. Wolny and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, 123-137. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego.