Contents Prefatory 7 PAWEŁ STACHURA (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) Drawing under the radar: “Earth’s holocaust” and truth in painting 15 PAULINA AMBROŻY (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) On the unconcealedness of the sketch in “The prophetic pictures” 37 MAREK PARYŻ (University of Warsaw) Roger Malvin’s corpse 57 MAREK WILCZYŃSKI (University of Gdańsk / University of Warsaw) Between memory and tradition; or, “Legends of the Province-House” 69 JOSEPH KUHN (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) The Robin Molineux of Lionel Trilling 85 JANUSZ SEMRAU (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań / University of Social Sciences, Warsaw) What if “Wakefield” were (about) a woman? 101 KATARZYNA KUCZMA (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) Hawthorne’s natural order of self-reflexivity 127 DAVID MALCOLM (University of Gdańsk) Is there coherence and cohesion in the 1837 volume of Twice-told tales? 157 Index of titles 173 Notes on contributors 175