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2018

April

Made in Taiwan? How a Frenchman Fooled 18th-Century London Fallen Angels: Birds of Paradise in Early Modern Europe

March

Pens and Needles: Reviving Book-Embroidery in Victorian England “Alas, Poor YORICK!”: The Death and Life of Laurence Sterne

February

Darwin’s Polar Bear Illustrating Carnival: Remembering the Overlooked Artists Behind Early Mardi Gras

January

The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420 Yvette Borup Andrews: Photographing Central Asia

2017

December

Pods, Pots, and Potions: Putting Cacao to Paper in Early Modern Europe

November

Brief Encounters with Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck Flash Mob: Revolution, Lightning, and the People’s Will

October

Defining the Demonic Race and the White Elephant War of 1884

September

Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath

August

Rescuing England: The Rhetoric of Imperialism and the Salvation Army

July

Out From Behind This Mask Inventing the Recording

June

Decoding the Morse: The History of 16th-Century Narcoleptic Walruses

May

Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings of Weimar Berlin Stuffed Ox, Dummy Tree, Artificial Rock: Deception in the Work of Richard and Cherry Kearton Woodcuts and Witches

April

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

March

American Freedom: Sinclair Lewis and the Open Road Voltaire and the Buddha

February

A Queer Taste for Macaroni George Washington: A Descendant of Odin?

January

Defoe and the Distance to Utopia

2016

December

The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man

November

Astral Travels with Jack London “Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination

October

Richard Hakluyt and Early English Travel Harry Clarke’s Looking Glass

September

Out of Their Love They Made It: A Visual History of Buraq Visions of Algae in Eighteenth-Century Botany

August

The Calcutta Pococurante Society: Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform “Unlimiting the Bounds”: the Panorama and the Balloon View

July

“For the Sake of the Prospect”: Experiencing the World from Above in the Late 18th Century

June

The Secret History of Holywell Street: Home to Victorian London’s Dirty Book Trade Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816 Francis van Helmont and the Alphabet of Nature

May

Copying Pictures, Evidencing Evolution Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence

April

George Washington at the Siamese Court Picturing Don Quixote

March

Divine Comedy: Lucian Versus The Gods The Strange Case of Mr William T. Horton

February

The Anthropometric Detective and His Racial Clues Who Says Michelangelo Was Right? Conflicting Visions of the Past in Early Modern Prints

January

Robert Greene, the First Bohemian On Oscar Wilde and Plagiarism

2015

December

Worlds Without End

November

The Science of Life and Death in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

October

Notes on the Fourth Dimension Richard Spruce and the Trials of Victorian Bryology

September

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 Tribal Life in Old Lyme: Canada’s Colorblind Chronicler and his Connecticut Exile

August

When the Birds and the Bees Were Not Enough: Aristotle’s Masterpiece Machiavelli, Comedian

July

Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments The Mystery of Lewis Carroll

June

A Bestiary of Sir Thomas Browne The Nightwalker and the Nocturnal Picaresque

May

The Empathetic Camera: Frank Norris and the Invention of Film Editing

April

Forgotten Failures of African Exploration Black on Black

March

Ignorant Armies: Private Snafu Goes to War Sex and Science in Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora

February

The Eternal Guffaw: John Leech and The Comic History of Rome Neanderthals in 3D: L’Homme de La Chapelle

January

When Chocolate was Medicine: Colmenero, Wadsworth, and Dufour

2014

November

Julia Pastrana: A “Monster to the Whole World” Illustrations of Madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom

October

Wild Heart Turning White: Georg Trakl and Cocaine The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire Piracy at the Old Bailey

September

Ghostwriter and Ghost: The Strange Case of Pearl Curran & Patience Worth

August

Redressing the Balance: Levinus Vincent’s Wonder Theatre of Nature “O, Excellent Air Bag”: Humphry Davy and Nitrous Oxide

July

The Tale of Beatrix Potter Julia Margaret Cameron in Ceylon: Idylls of Freshwater vs. Idylls of Rathoongodde

June

Picturing Pyrotechnics Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance: Dan Carter Beard’s Foray into Fiction

May

The Naturalist and the Neurologist: On Charles Darwin and James Crichton-Browne In the Image of God: John Comenius and the First Children’s Picture Book

April

John L. Sullivan Fights America 1592: Coining Columbus Darkness Over All: John Robison and the Birth of the Illuminati Conspiracy

March

Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia Frederik Ruysch: The Artist of Death

February

The Founding Fathers v. The Climate Change Skeptics Olaus Magnus’ Sea Serpent

January

Writing his Life through the Other: The Anthropology of Malinowski Inside the Empty House: Sherlock Holmes, For King and Country

2013

December

Encounter at the Crossroads of Europe — the Fellowship of Zweig and Verhaeren

November

Time and Place: Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) Lost in Translation: Proust and Scott Moncrieff

October

Alfred Russel Wallace: a Heretic’s Heretic Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World A Dangerous Man in the Pantheon

September

The Serious and the Smirk: The Smile in Portraiture Proving it: The American Provers’ Union documents certain ill effects

August

The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse

July

Re-examining ‘the Elephant Man’ Robert Baden-Powell’s Entomological Intrigues

June

Lucian’s Trips to the Moon Sir Arthur and the Fairies

May

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

April

Vesalius and the Body Metaphor Joseph Banks: Portraits of a Placid Elephant

March

Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits The Redemption of Saint Anthony

February

Still Booking on De Quincey’s Mail-Coach The Curious World of Isaac D’Israeli

January

The Erotic Dreams of Emanuel Swedenborg Simple Songs: Virginia Woolf and Music

2012

December

The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm

November

Henry Morton Stanley and the Pygmies of “Darkest Africa” The Strangely Troubled Life of Digby Mackworth Dolben Athanasius, Underground

October

Trüth, Beaüty, and Volapük The Implacability of Things

September

Mrs Giacometti Prodgers, the Cabman’s Nemesis The Last Great Explorer: William F. Warren and the Search for Eden

August

The Lancashire Witches 1612-2012 Conan Doyle’s Olympic Crusade

July

The First Olympic Protest John Martin and the Theatre of Subversion

June

The Polyglot of Bologna Seeing Joyce

May

The Krakatoa Sunsets The Assassination of the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval

April

Painting the New World The Unsinkable Myth

March

Remembering Scott Richard Dadd’s Master-Stroke

February

Lost Libraries Almost as good as Presley: Caruso the pop idol Phillis Wheatley: an Eighteenth-Century Genius in Bondage

January

An Unlikely Lunch: When Maupassant met Swinburne Selma Lagerlöf: Surface and Depth

2011

December

Robert Southey’s Dreams Revisited

November

The Mysteries of Nature and Art The Tragedy of Fate and the Tragedy of Culture: Heinrich von Kleist’s The Schroffenstein Family The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi Peter The Wild Boy

October

On Benjamin’s Public (Oeuvre) Navigating Dürer’s Woodcuts for The Ship of Fools What Makes Franz Liszt Still Important? Stories of a Hollow Earth

September

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

August

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

June

Was Charles Darwin an Atheist? John Muir’s Literary Science

April

Beatus of Liébana

March

Bugs and Beasts Before the Law 100 Years of The Secret Garden The Life and Work of Nehemiah Grew

February

Lewis Carroll and The Hunting of the Snark The Snowflake Man of Vermont Tales from Tahiti

January

Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno Ernst Haeckel and the Unity of Culture Emma Goldman’s “Anarchism Without Adjectives” In Hollywood with Nathanael West