| Ambasada RP zaprasza na wykład pt. „Tadeusz Kościuszko:
Poland's National Hero in British Art and Literature”,
który zostanie wygłoszony przez Dr Thomasa McLeana, University of Otago. Wykład oparty będzie na książce Dr McLeana pt. “The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire”, która wkrótce ukaże się na rynku wydawniczym.
The lecture will be held at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland, 7 Turrana Street, Yarralumla
on Thursday 3 November 2011 at 7:00 p.m. A reception will follow.
Please bring this invitation with you.
RSVP (acceptances only) by 31 October e-mail:
Malgorzata.Krakowiak@msz.gov.pl
phone: (02) 6272 1000
About the lecture:
Most Australians know Kosciuszko as the name of a mountain. But Tadeusz Kosciuszko was one of the most important figures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This lecture will offer a brief overview of Kosciuszko’s remarkable life—his service in the American Revolution, his attempts to bring a similar revolution to Poland, and his life in exile after the failure of the Kosciuszko Uprising.
But its main focus will be the literary and artistic works created in Great Britain to commemorate the Polish general. Some of the greatest writers of the era, including John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lord Byron, praised Kosciuszko in verse, and he became the subject of a fascinating series of paintings and engravings produced after a brief visit to London in 1797. This lecture will examine these works and consider how they helped create images and stereotypes of Poland that remain with us today.
Bio:
Thomas McLean is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century British Literature at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is the author of The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Imagining Poland and the British Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and editor of Further Letters of Joanna Baillie (2010). Dr McLean is the recipient of research grants from Harvard, Yale, and UCLA, and he is currently a Research Fellow in the Humanities Research Centre at ANU.
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