Contents

From the Editor (5)

“The Rotten State of Denmark”: The Discourse of Reason of State in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (7)

Amira Aloui, University of Szeged

Bringing Ghosts Down to Earth: Depictions of Spiritualism in the Victorian Popular Press (20)

Dorota Osińska, University of Warsaw

Postmodern Plague Narrative: The Representation of the Polio Epidemic in Philip Roth’s Nemesis (42)

Michał Palmowski, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

No, We Can’t: Racial Tensions and the Great Recession in Benjamin Markovits’ “Obama-Era Novel” You Don’t Have to Live Like This (57)

Ewa Kowal, Jagiellonian University in Kraków

The 29th PASE conference, Intersections: Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Encounters in English Studies, 24-25 June 2021 (80)

Grzegorz Maziarczyk, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University of Lublin

32nd International Conference on Foreign and Second Language Acquisition (ICFSLA) (82)

Danuta Gabryś-Barker, University of Silesia

Authors’ Biodata (85)

Information for Contributors (86)

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement (90)

Open Access Statement (94)