Golden Epochs and Dark Ages. Perspectives on the Past

Introduction: Changing Values in History and Periodisation Anna Antonowicz and Tomasz Niedokos Part 1: Alternative Pasts: critical returns and fetishising nostalgias The Mirror and the Wand: Historical Epochs in Contemporary Film Adaptations of British Literature Barbara Klonowska Dreams of Steam: Fetishising an Age of Industry in Contemporary Steampunk Cinema Robbie mcAllister Angela Carter s Magic Real Herstory: Nights at the Circus Rajesh Bharvad Part 2: Dichotomous visions: myths, dreams and realities A Myth of O Connor and O Faolain”: The Paradoxes of Irish Experience in the 1940s and 1950s Benjamin Keatinge John McGahern s Ireland: A Split Portrait Grace Ledwidge Downton Abbey: A Golden Age or Social Mobility in Reverse? Jane M. Ekstam Airships and Automata: Steampunking History in the Long Nineteenth Century Jeanette Atkinson Part 3: Cultural value and visibility: foundational relationships and mainstream acceptances A Dark Period in the Seventeenth Century: Drama in the Caroline Age Cristina Paravano The Golden Age(s) of British Illustration Maxime Leroy Medieval Wales in Modern Germany: Martin Buber Translates the Mabinogi Aled Llion Jones Cognitive Strategies of Realist, Modernist and Postmodern Fiction Joanna Klara Teske Against Logophilia - Contemporary Anglo-American Multimodal Literature and its Methods of Going Against Language as the Narrative Medium Wiolleta Anna Chabko List of authors