Małgorzata Nitka è Assistant Professor (Institute Literary Studies, University of Silesia, Poland).
I suoi interessi di ricerca riguardano la letteratura e la cultura inglese del XIX secolo, in particolare gli aspetti sociali e culturali della rivoluzione industriale. La sua pubblicazione principale in questo campo è Railway Defamiliarisation. The Rise of Passengerhood in the Nineteenth Century (2006), un'analisi dei cambiamenti culturali seguiti allo sviluppo della ferrovia nel XIX secolo. Ha anche pubblicato articoli su Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Reade, Arnold Bennett, Anthony Trollope e Andrew Ure.
Pubblicazioni recenti:
“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.