Contents -- Introduction -- Posnania: the Prussian Part of Poland -- Prussia and Poland before 1800 -- Poles, Prussians, and Napoleon -- The Era of the Spring of the Nations: Bismarck's -- Rise to Power and Kulturkampf -- The Revolution of 1848 in the -- Grand Duchy of Poznan -- Prussian Writers vis-à-vis the Poles: From Dedication and Admiration to Critique and Condemnation -- Prussian Polish Literature -- The Making of a Prussian Polish Lyric: Polengedichte and Theodor Fontane -- Fontane vis-à-vis Gustav Freytag: The Image of Prussia and Bismarck in Their Literary Works -- Fontane's First Historical Novel: Polish Motifs in Vor dem Sturm -- Galicia in the Nineteenth Century -- Historical Background -- Galicia from Its Roots to the Peasant Uprising of 1846 -- Galicia after 1848 -- Images of Galicia in Nineteenth- Century Literature: Marie von Ebner- Eschenbach -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and the Polish Nation -- Der Kreisphysikus -- Peasants' Uprising of 1846 Revisited: "Jakob Szela" (1883) -- Jan Lam and Galician Society -- Lam in the Galician Public Eye -- Panna Emilia czyli Wielki Swiat Capowic (1869) -- The Historical Setting -- Conclusion -- Galicia and Kongresówka in the Time of the January Uprising of 1863: Wielopolski's Realpolitik -- Kongresówka: the Russian Partition. -- The Historical Background -- Before the Uprising: Kongresówka in 1861 -- Galicia and the January Uprising -- The January Uprising and Lam's Response: and Koroniarz w Galicji -- The Politics of Fiction -- The Question of Aristocrats -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.