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Fallen Angels: Birds of Paradise in Early Modern Europe Pens and Needles: Reviving Book-Embroidery in Victorian England Illustrating Carnival: Remembering the Overlooked Artists Behind Early Mardi Gras The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420 Pods, Pots, and Potions: Putting Cacao to Paper in Early Modern Europe Brief Encounters with Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck Flash Mob: Revolution, Lightning, and the People’s Will Defining the Demonic Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath Out From Behind This Mask Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings of Weimar Berlin Woodcuts and Witches A Queer Taste for Macaroni The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man Harry Clarke’s Looking Glass Out of Their Love They Made It: A Visual History of Buraq “Unlimiting the Bounds”: the Panorama and the Balloon View “For the Sake of the Prospect”: Experiencing the World from Above in the Late 18th Century The Secret History of Holywell Street: Home to Victorian London’s Dirty Book Trade Picturing Don Quixote The Strange Case of Mr William T. Horton Who Says Michelangelo Was Right? Conflicting Visions of the Past in Early Modern Prints On Oscar Wilde and Plagiarism Tribal Life in Old Lyme: Canada’s Colorblind Chronicler and his Connecticut Exile Sex and Science in Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora The Eternal Guffaw: John Leech and The Comic History of Rome Illustrations of Madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom Redressing the Balance: Levinus Vincent’s Wonder Theatre of Nature The Tale of Beatrix Potter Picturing Pyrotechnics Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance: Dan Carter Beard’s Foray into Fiction 1592: Coining Columbus Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia Frederik Ruysch: The Artist of Death Olaus Magnus’ Sea Serpent Time and Place: Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) The Serious and the Smirk: The Smile in Portraiture Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx Joseph Banks: Portraits of a Placid Elephant The Redemption of Saint Anthony Athanasius, Underground John Martin and the Theatre of Subversion The Krakatoa Sunsets Painting the New World Richard Dadd’s Master-Stroke The Mysteries of Nature and Art Navigating Dürer’s Woodcuts for The Ship of Fools Robert Fludd and His Images of The Divine Accuracy and Elegance in Cheselden’s Osteographia (1733) Labillardière and his Relation Beatus of Liébana The Life and Work of Nehemiah Grew Lewis Carroll and The Hunting of the Snark The Snowflake Man of Vermont Ernst Haeckel and the Unity of Culture
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Made in Taiwan? How a Frenchman Fooled 18th-Century London Pens and Needles: Reviving Book-Embroidery in Victorian England Defining the Demonic Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly Rescuing England: The Rhetoric of Imperialism and the Salvation Army Woodcuts and Witches George Washington: A Descendant of Odin? Defoe and the Distance to Utopia Astral Travels with Jack London Richard Hakluyt and Early English Travel Picturing Don Quixote Divine Comedy: Lucian Versus The Gods Robert Greene, the First Bohemian On Oscar Wilde and Plagiarism The Science of Life and Death in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Notes on the Fourth Dimension Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880) Tribal Life in Old Lyme: Canada’s Colorblind Chronicler and his Connecticut Exile When the Birds and the Bees Were Not Enough: Aristotle’s Masterpiece The Mystery of Lewis Carroll A Bestiary of Sir Thomas Browne The Nightwalker and the Nocturnal Picaresque Black on Black Sex and Science in Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora The Eternal Guffaw: John Leech and The Comic History of Rome Neanderthals in 3D: L’Homme de La Chapelle The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire Ghostwriter and Ghost: The Strange Case of Pearl Curran & Patience Worth The Tale of Beatrix Potter Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance: Dan Carter Beard’s Foray into Fiction In the Image of God: John Comenius and the First Children’s Picture Book 1592: Coining Columbus Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia Encounter at the Crossroads of Europe — the Fellowship of Zweig and Verhaeren Lost in Translation: Proust and Scott Moncrieff Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse Robert Baden-Powell’s Entomological Intrigues Lucian’s Trips to the Moon Sir Arthur and the Fairies Mother Goose’s French Birth (1697) and British Afterlife (1729) Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx As a Lute out of Tune: Robert Burton’s Melancholy Vesalius and the Body Metaphor The Redemption of Saint Anthony The Curious World of Isaac D’Israeli Simple Songs: Virginia Woolf and Music The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm Henry Morton Stanley and the Pygmies of “Darkest Africa” The Strangely Troubled Life of Digby Mackworth Dolben Athanasius, Underground Trüth, Beaüty, and Volapük The Implacability of Things The Last Great Explorer: William F. Warren and the Search for Eden The Lancashire Witches 1612-2012 The Polyglot of Bologna Seeing Joyce Lost Libraries Selma Lagerlöf: Surface and Depth The Mysteries of Nature and Art The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi Navigating Dürer’s Woodcuts for The Ship of Fools Stories of a Hollow Earth A Few Words about F. Scott Fitzgerald Aspiring to a Higher Plane Robert Fludd and His Images of The Divine Dog Stories from The Spectator Geronimo: The Warrior Accuracy and Elegance in Cheselden’s Osteographia (1733) Labillardière and his Relation American Kaleidoscope: Morton Prince and the Boston Revolution in Psychotherapy John Muir’s Literary Science Beatus of Liébana Bugs and Beasts Before the Law 100 Years of The Secret Garden The Life and Work of Nehemiah Grew Lewis Carroll and The Hunting of the Snark Tales from Tahiti Emma Goldman’s “Anarchism Without Adjectives” In Hollywood with Nathanael West
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Robert Greene, the First Bohemian Machiavelli, Comedian
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John L. Sullivan Fights America Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World Sir Arthur and the Fairies Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits Conan Doyle’s Olympic Crusade The First Olympic Protest
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The Empathetic Camera: Frank Norris and the Invention of Film Editing Ignorant Armies: Private Snafu Goes to War
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Made in Taiwan? How a Frenchman Fooled 18th-Century London Illustrating Carnival: Remembering the Overlooked Artists Behind Early Mardi Gras Pods, Pots, and Potions: Putting Cacao to Paper in Early Modern Europe Brief Encounters with Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck Flash Mob: Revolution, Lightning, and the People’s Will Race and the White Elephant War of 1884 Out From Behind This Mask Decoding the Morse: The History of 16th-Century Narcoleptic Walruses Woodcuts and Witches Lofty Only in Sound: Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams A Queer Taste for Macaroni George Washington: A Descendant of Odin? “Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination Richard Hakluyt and Early English Travel The Calcutta Pococurante Society: Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform “Unlimiting the Bounds”: the Panorama and the Balloon View “For the Sake of the Prospect”: Experiencing the World from Above in the Late 18th Century The Secret History of Holywell Street: Home to Victorian London’s Dirty Book Trade Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816 George Washington at the Siamese Court Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments Forgotten Failures of African Exploration When Chocolate was Medicine: Colmenero, Wadsworth, and Dufour Julia Pastrana: A “Monster to the Whole World” Illustrations of Madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom Piracy at the Old Bailey Picturing Pyrotechnics John L. Sullivan Fights America 1592: Coining Columbus Darkness Over All: John Robison and the Birth of the Illuminati Conspiracy Writing his Life through the Other: The Anthropology of Malinowski Inside the Empty House: Sherlock Holmes, For King and Country Encounter at the Crossroads of Europe — the Fellowship of Zweig and Verhaeren Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World A Dangerous Man in the Pantheon The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse Re-examining ‘the Elephant Man’ Sir Arthur and the Fairies Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx Vesalius and the Body Metaphor Joseph Banks: Portraits of a Placid Elephant Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits Still Booking on De Quincey’s Mail-Coach The Curious World of Isaac D’Israeli The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm Henry Morton Stanley and the Pygmies of “Darkest Africa” Athanasius, Underground Trüth, Beaüty, and Volapük Mrs Giacometti Prodgers, the Cabman’s Nemesis The Lancashire Witches 1612-2012 Conan Doyle’s Olympic Crusade The First Olympic Protest John Martin and the Theatre of Subversion The Polyglot of Bologna The Krakatoa Sunsets The Assassination of the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval Painting the New World The Unsinkable Myth Remembering Scott Lost Libraries Phillis Wheatley: an Eighteenth-Century Genius in Bondage An Unlikely Lunch: When Maupassant met Swinburne The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi Peter The Wild Boy On Benjamin’s Public (Oeuvre) Geronimo: The Warrior Labillardière and his Relation Was Charles Darwin an Atheist? Bugs and Beasts Before the Law The Life and Work of Nehemiah Grew Tales from Tahiti
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“Alas, Poor YORICK!”: The Death and Life of Laurence Sterne Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly American Freedom: Sinclair Lewis and the Open Road Defoe and the Distance to Utopia Astral Travels with Jack London The Secret History of Holywell Street: Home to Victorian London’s Dirty Book Trade Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816 Picturing Don Quixote Robert Greene, the First Bohemian Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880) The Nightwalker and the Nocturnal Picaresque The Empathetic Camera: Frank Norris and the Invention of Film Editing The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire Ghostwriter and Ghost: The Strange Case of Pearl Curran & Patience Worth Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance: Dan Carter Beard’s Foray into Fiction Inside the Empty House: Sherlock Holmes, For King and Country Encounter at the Crossroads of Europe — the Fellowship of Zweig and Verhaeren Lost in Translation: Proust and Scott Moncrieff Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World A Dangerous Man in the Pantheon Lucian’s Trips to the Moon Mother Goose’s French Birth (1697) and British Afterlife (1729) Still Booking on De Quincey’s Mail-Coach The Curious World of Isaac D’Israeli Simple Songs: Virginia Woolf and Music The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm The Strangely Troubled Life of Digby Mackworth Dolben The Implacability of Things Conan Doyle’s Olympic Crusade Seeing Joyce The Krakatoa Sunsets Lost Libraries Phillis Wheatley: an Eighteenth-Century Genius in Bondage An Unlikely Lunch: When Maupassant met Swinburne Selma Lagerlöf: Surface and Depth Robert Southey’s Dreams Revisited The Tragedy of Fate and the Tragedy of Culture: Heinrich von Kleist’s The Schroffenstein Family On Benjamin’s Public (Oeuvre) Stories of a Hollow Earth A Few Words about F. Scott Fitzgerald Aspiring to a Higher Plane John Muir’s Literary Science 100 Years of The Secret Garden Lewis Carroll and The Hunting of the Snark Tales from Tahiti Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno Emma Goldman’s “Anarchism Without Adjectives” In Hollywood with Nathanael West
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Inventing the Recording Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments Simple Songs: Virginia Woolf and Music Almost as good as Presley: Caruso the pop idol What Makes Franz Liszt Still Important?
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Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings of Weimar Berlin Tribal Life in Old Lyme: Canada’s Colorblind Chronicler and his Connecticut Exile Black on Black Sex and Science in Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia Olaus Magnus’ Sea Serpent The Serious and the Smirk: The Smile in Portraiture Joseph Banks: Portraits of a Placid Elephant John Martin and the Theatre of Subversion Seeing Joyce Painting the New World Richard Dadd’s Master-Stroke
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Out From Behind This Mask “Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination Francis van Helmont and the Alphabet of Nature Notes on the Fourth Dimension Machiavelli, Comedian Black on Black Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia A Dangerous Man in the Pantheon Lucian’s Trips to the Moon As a Lute out of Tune: Robert Burton’s Melancholy The Erotic Dreams of Emanuel Swedenborg Trüth, Beaüty, and Volapük The Last Great Explorer: William F. Warren and the Search for Eden On Benjamin’s Public (Oeuvre) Aspiring to a Higher Plane Robert Fludd and His Images of The Divine American Kaleidoscope: Morton Prince and the Boston Revolution in Psychotherapy The Life and Work of Nehemiah Grew Ernst Haeckel and the Unity of Culture Emma Goldman’s “Anarchism Without Adjectives”
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Yvette Borup Andrews: Photographing Central Asia Stuffed Ox, Dummy Tree, Artificial Rock: Deception in the Work of Richard and Cherry Kearton The Secret History of Holywell Street: Home to Victorian London’s Dirty Book Trade Neanderthals in 3D: L’Homme de La Chapelle Julia Margaret Cameron in Ceylon: Idylls of Freshwater vs. Idylls of Rathoongodde The Naturalist and the Neurologist: On Charles Darwin and James Crichton-Browne The Serious and the Smirk: The Smile in Portraiture Sir Arthur and the Fairies Remembering Scott The Snowflake Man of Vermont
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Lofty Only in Sound: Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams On Oscar Wilde and Plagiarism Sex and Science in Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora Wild Heart Turning White: Georg Trakl and Cocaine Ghostwriter and Ghost: The Strange Case of Pearl Curran & Patience Worth The Strangely Troubled Life of Digby Mackworth Dolben The Krakatoa Sunsets Phillis Wheatley: an Eighteenth-Century Genius in Bondage An Unlikely Lunch: When Maupassant met Swinburne Robert Southey’s Dreams Revisited Lewis Carroll and The Hunting of the Snark Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno
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Fallen Angels: Birds of Paradise in Early Modern Europe Defining the Demonic Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly Rescuing England: The Rhetoric of Imperialism and the Salvation Army Decoding the Morse: The History of 16th-Century Narcoleptic Walruses Woodcuts and Witches Voltaire and the Buddha George Washington: A Descendant of Odin? Out of Their Love They Made It: A Visual History of Buraq Francis van Helmont and the Alphabet of Nature Divine Comedy: Lucian Versus The Gods Worlds Without End A Bestiary of Sir Thomas Browne The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire Ghostwriter and Ghost: The Strange Case of Pearl Curran & Patience Worth In the Image of God: John Comenius and the First Children’s Picture Book Darkness Over All: John Robison and the Birth of the Illuminati Conspiracy Alfred Russel Wallace: a Heretic’s Heretic Sir Arthur and the Fairies Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx The Redemption of Saint Anthony The Erotic Dreams of Emanuel Swedenborg The Last Great Explorer: William F. Warren and the Search for Eden Navigating Dürer’s Woodcuts for The Ship of Fools Robert Fludd and His Images of The Divine Was Charles Darwin an Atheist? Beatus of Liébana Bugs and Beasts Before the Law Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno Ernst Haeckel and the Unity of Culture
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Darwin’s Polar Bear The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420 Pods, Pots, and Potions: Putting Cacao to Paper in Early Modern Europe Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath W. B. O’Shaughnessy and the Introduction of Cannabis to Modern Western Medicine Lofty Only in Sound: Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man “Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination Visions of Algae in Eighteenth-Century Botany Copying Pictures, Evidencing Evolution Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence The Anthropometric Detective and His Racial Clues Worlds Without End The Science of Life and Death in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Notes on the Fourth Dimension Richard Spruce and the Trials of Victorian Bryology Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880) Dr Mitchill and the Mathematical Tetrodon When the Birds and the Bees Were Not Enough: Aristotle’s Masterpiece Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments Black on Black Sex and Science in Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora Neanderthals in 3D: L’Homme de La Chapelle When Chocolate was Medicine: Colmenero, Wadsworth, and Dufour Julia Pastrana: A “Monster to the Whole World” Illustrations of Madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom Redressing the Balance: Levinus Vincent’s Wonder Theatre of Nature “O, Excellent Air Bag”: Humphry Davy and Nitrous Oxide The Naturalist and the Neurologist: On Charles Darwin and James Crichton-Browne Frederik Ruysch: The Artist of Death The Founding Fathers v. The Climate Change Skeptics Olaus Magnus’ Sea Serpent Writing his Life through the Other: The Anthropology of Malinowski Alfred Russel Wallace: a Heretic’s Heretic Proving it: The American Provers’ Union documents certain ill effects Re-examining ‘the Elephant Man’ As a Lute out of Tune: Robert Burton’s Melancholy Vesalius and the Body Metaphor Joseph Banks: Portraits of a Placid Elephant Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits Athanasius, Underground The Last Great Explorer: William F. Warren and the Search for Eden The Krakatoa Sunsets The Mysteries of Nature and Art Aspiring to a Higher Plane Robert Fludd and His Images of The Divine Accuracy and Elegance in Cheselden’s Osteographia (1733) American Kaleidoscope: Morton Prince and the Boston Revolution in Psychotherapy Was Charles Darwin an Atheist? John Muir’s Literary Science The Life and Work of Nehemiah Grew The Snowflake Man of Vermont Ernst Haeckel and the Unity of Culture