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The Nightwalker and the Nocturnal Picaresque

The Nightwalker and the Nocturnal Picaresque

The Mysteries of Nature and Art

The Mysteries of Nature and Art

The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man

The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man

The Long, Forgotten Walk of David Ingram

The Long, Forgotten Walk of David Ingram

The Life and Work of Nehemiah Grew

The Life and Work of Nehemiah Grew

The Last Great Explorer William F Warren and the Search for Eden

The Last Great Explorer William F Warren and the Search for Eden

Navigating Dürer’s Woodcuts for The Ship of Fools

Navigating Dürer’s Woodcuts for The Ship of Fools

The Lancashire Witches 1612-2012

The Lancashire Witches 1612-2012

The Krakatoa Sunsets

The Krakatoa Sunsets

The Implacability of Things

The Implacability of Things

The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm

The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm

The Eternal Guffaw John Leech and The Comic History of Rome

The Eternal Guffaw John Leech and The Comic History of Rome

The Erotic Dreams of Emanuel Swedenborg

The Erotic Dreams of Emanuel Swedenborg

The Dust That Measures All Our Time

The Dust That Measures All Our Time

The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420

The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420

The Dancing Plague of 1518

The Dancing Plague of 1518

Navigating Dürer’s Woodcuts for The Ship of Fools

Navigating Dürer’s Woodcuts for The Ship of Fools

The Calcutta Pococurante Society Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform

The Calcutta Pococurante Society Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform

The Curious World of Isaac D’Israeli

The Curious World of Isaac D’Israeli

The Assassination of the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval

The Assassination of the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval

Pens and Needles Reviving Book-Embroidery in Victorian England

Pens and Needles Reviving Book-Embroidery in Victorian England

Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings of Weimar Berlin

Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings of Weimar Berlin

Athanasius, Underground

Athanasius, Underground

The Art of Whaling Illustrations from the Logbooks of Nantucket Whaleships

The Art of Whaling Illustrations from the Logbooks of Nantucket Whaleships

Stories of a Hollow Earth

Stories of a Hollow Earth

Still Booking on De Quincey’s Mail-Coach

Still Booking on De Quincey’s Mail-Coach

Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816

Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816

Slavery in North Africa – the Famous Story of Captain James Riley

Slavery in North Africa – the Famous Story of Captain James Riley

Sicko Doctors Suffering and Sadism in 19th-Century America

Sicko Doctors Suffering and Sadism in 19th-Century America

Scurvy and the Terra Incognita

Scurvy and the Terra Incognita

Re-examining the Elephant Man

Re-examining the Elephant Man

Robert Southey’s Dreams Revisited

Robert Southey’s Dreams Revisited

Robert Fludd and His Images of The Divine

Robert Fludd and His Images of The Divine

Proving it The American Provers Union Documents Certain Ill Effects

Proving it The American Provers Union Documents Certain Ill Effects

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

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

Picturing Pyrotechnics

Picturing Pyrotechnics

Picturing a Voice Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone

Picturing a Voice Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone

Peter The Wild Boy

Peter The Wild Boy

Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits

Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits

A Queer Taste for Macaroni

A Queer Taste for Macaroni

Lucian’s Trips to the Moon

Lucian’s Trips to the Moon

Lost Libraries

Lost Libraries

Lost in Translation Proust and Scott Moncrieff

Lost in Translation Proust and Scott Moncrieff

Little Switzerlands Alpine Kitsch in England

Little Switzerlands Alpine Kitsch in England

Lewis Carroll and The Hunting of the Snark

Lewis Carroll and The Hunting of the Snark

Julia Pastrana A “Monster to the Whole World”

Julia Pastrana A “Monster to the Whole World”

Illustrations of Madness James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom

Illustrations of Madness James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom

Human Forms in Nature Ernst Haeckels Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath

Human Forms in Nature Ernst Haeckels Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath

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

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

Frederik Ruysch The Artist of Death

Frederik Ruysch The Artist of Death

Emma Goldman’s “Anarchism Without Adjectives”

Emma Goldman’s “Anarchism Without Adjectives”

Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno

Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno

Get Thee to a Phalanstery or, How Fourier Can Still Teach Us to Make Lemonade

Get Thee to a Phalanstery or, How Fourier Can Still Teach Us to Make Lemonade

Frolicsome Engines The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence

Frolicsome Engines The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence

Flower Power Hamilton’s Doctor and the Healing Power of Nature

Flower Power Hamilton’s Doctor and the Healing Power of Nature

Flash Mob Revolution, Lightning, and the Peoples Will

Flash Mob Revolution, Lightning, and the Peoples Will

Defoe and the Distance to Utopia

Defoe and the Distance to Utopia

Astral Travels with Jack London

Astral Travels with Jack London

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

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

Darkness Over All John Robison and the Birth of the Illuminati Conspiracy

Darkness Over All John Robison and the Birth of the Illuminati Conspiracy

Conan Doyle’s Olympic Crusade

Conan Doyle’s Olympic Crusade

Comic Gold The Easterner Goes West in Three Early American Comics

Comic Gold The Easterner Goes West in Three Early American Comics

Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments

Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments

Audubon’s Haiti

Audubon’s Haiti

Aspiring to a Higher Plane

Aspiring to a Higher Plane

Aspiring to a Higher Plane

Aspiring to a Higher Plane

As a Lute out of Tune Robert Burton’s Melancholy

As a Lute out of Tune Robert Burton’s Melancholy

As a Lute out of Tune Robert Burton’s Melancholy

As a Lute out of Tune Robert Burton’s Melancholy

1592 Coining Columbus

1592 Coining Columbus

1592 Coining Columbus

1592 Coining Columbus

Seeing Joyce

Seeing Joyce

Richard Spruce and the Trials of Victorian Bryology

Richard Spruce and the Trials of Victorian Bryology

Richard Hakluyt and Early English Travel

Richard Hakluyt and Early English Travel

Richard Dadd’s Master-Stroke

Richard Dadd’s Master-Stroke

Piracy at the Old Bailey

Piracy at the Old Bailey

Primary Sources A Natural History of the Artists Palette

Primary Sources A Natural History of the Artists Palette

Remembering Scott

Remembering Scott

Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921

Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921

Painting the New World

Painting the New World

Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life In Pursuit of the “Real” Chateaubriand

Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life In Pursuit of the “Real” Chateaubriand

Beastly Clues T S Eliot, Torquemada, and the Modernist Crossword

Beastly Clues T S Eliot, Torquemada, and the Modernist Crossword

Mistress of a New World Early Science Fiction in Europe’s “Age of Discovery”

Mistress of a New World Early Science Fiction in Europe’s “Age of Discovery”

Lustucru From Severed Heads to Ready-Made Meals

Lustucru From Severed Heads to Ready-Made Meals

In the Image of God John Comenius and the First Childrens Picture Book

In the Image of God John Comenius and the First Childrens Picture Book

Geronimo The Warrior

Geronimo The Warrior

Brilliant Visions Peyote among the Aesthetes

Brilliant Visions Peyote among the Aesthetes

American Freedom Sinclair Lewis and the Open Road

American Freedom Sinclair Lewis and the Open Road

Of Pears and Kings

Of Pears and Kings

Marxist Astronomy The Milky Way According to Anton Pannekoek

Marxist Astronomy The Milky Way According to Anton Pannekoek

Inventing the Recording

Inventing the Recording

Ignorant Armies Private Snafu Goes to War

Ignorant Armies Private Snafu Goes to War

Exquisite Rot Spalted Wood and the Lost Art of Intarsia

Exquisite Rot Spalted Wood and the Lost Art of Intarsia

Dr Mitchill and the Mathematical Tetrodon

Dr Mitchill and the Mathematical Tetrodon

Divining the Witch of York Propaganda and Prophecy

Divining the Witch of York Propaganda and Prophecy

Darwins Polar Bear

Darwins Polar Bear

A Paper Archaeology Piranesi’s Ruinous Fantasias

A Paper Archaeology Piranesi’s Ruinous Fantasias

100 Years of The Secret Garden

100 Years of The Secret Garden

Redressing the Balance Levinus Vincent’s Wonder Theatre of Nature

Redressing the Balance Levinus Vincent’s Wonder Theatre of Nature

Progress in Play Board Games and the Meaning of History

Progress in Play Board Games and the Meaning of History

Greenland Unicorns and the Magical Alicorn

Greenland Unicorns and the Magical Alicorn

Fungi, Folklore, and Fairyland

Fungi, Folklore, and Fairyland

Emma Willards Maps of Time

Emma Willards Maps of Time

Mother Goose’s French Birth (1697) and British Afterlife (1729)

Mother Goose’s French Birth (1697) and British Afterlife (1729)

Laughter in the Time of Cholera

Laughter in the Time of Cholera

Elephants, Horses, and the Proportions of Paradise

Elephants, Horses, and the Proportions of Paradise

Defining the Demonic

Defining the Demonic

Circassian Beauty in the American Sideshow

Circassian Beauty in the American Sideshow

Almost as Good as Presley Caruso the Pop Idol

Almost as Good as Presley Caruso the Pop Idol

Labillardière and his Relation

Labillardière and his Relation

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

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

Documenting Drugs The Artful Intoxications of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Documenting Drugs The Artful Intoxications of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

John Muirs Literary Science

John Muirs Literary Science

W B OShaughnessy and the Introduction of Cannabis to Modern Western Medicine

W B OShaughnessy and the Introduction of Cannabis to Modern Western Medicine

Harry Clarke’s Looking Glass

Harry Clarke’s Looking Glass

Handy Mnemonics The Five-Fingered Memory Machine

Handy Mnemonics The Five-Fingered Memory Machine

Francis van Helmont and the Alphabet of Nature

Francis van Helmont and the Alphabet of Nature

Brief Encounters with Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck

Brief Encounters with Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck

Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits

Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits

Labillardière and his Relation

Labillardière and his Relation

Julia Margaret Cameron in Ceylon Idylls of Freshwater vs Idylls of Rathoongodde

Julia Margaret Cameron in Ceylon Idylls of Freshwater vs Idylls of Rathoongodde

John Muirs Literary Science

John Muirs Literary Science

Illustrating Carnival Remembering the Overlooked Artists Behind Early Mardi Gras

Illustrating Carnival Remembering the Overlooked Artists Behind Early Mardi Gras

Grandville, Visions, and Dreams

Grandville, Visions, and Dreams

Fallen Angels Birds of Paradise in Early Modern Europe

Fallen Angels Birds of Paradise in Early Modern Europe

Eric, Count Stenbock A Catch Of A Ghost

Eric, Count Stenbock A Catch Of A Ghost

Aspiring to a Higher Plane

Aspiring to a Higher Plane

100 Years of The Secret Garden

100 Years of The Secret Garden

Emma Goldman’s “Anarchism Without Adjectives”

Emma Goldman’s “Anarchism Without Adjectives”

Darwins Polar Bear

Darwins Polar Bear

Bugs and Beasts Before the Law

Bugs and Beasts Before the Law

Aspiring to a Higher Plane

Aspiring to a Higher Plane

100 Years of The Secret Garden

100 Years of The Secret Garden

Emma Willards Maps of Time

Emma Willards Maps of Time

Aspiring to a Higher Plane

Aspiring to a Higher Plane

100 Years of The Secret Garden

100 Years of The Secret Garden

Re-examining the Elephant Man

Re-examining the Elephant Man

Piracy at the Old Bailey

Piracy at the Old Bailey

Picturing Scent The Tale of a Beached Whale

Picturing Scent The Tale of a Beached Whale

Picturing Pyrotechnics

Picturing Pyrotechnics

Picturing a Voice Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone

Picturing a Voice Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone

Petrarchs Plague Love, Death, and Friendship in a Time of Pandemic

Petrarchs Plague Love, Death, and Friendship in a Time of Pandemic

Out of Their Love They Made It A Visual History of Buraq

Out of Their Love They Made It A Visual History of Buraq

On Benjamin’s Public (Oeuvre)

On Benjamin’s Public (Oeuvre)

Olaus Magnus’ Sea Serpent

Olaus Magnus’ Sea Serpent

Of Pears and Kings

Of Pears and Kings

Black America, 1895

Black America, 1895

American Kaleidoscope Morton Prince and the Boston Revolution in Psychotherapy

American Kaleidoscope Morton Prince and the Boston Revolution in Psychotherapy

Bringing the Ocean Home

Bringing the Ocean Home

Filling in the Blanks A Prehistory of the Adult Coloring Craze

Filling in the Blanks A Prehistory of the Adult Coloring Craze

George Washington at the Siamese Court

George Washington at the Siamese Court

Human Forms in Nature Ernst Haeckels Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath

Human Forms in Nature Ernst Haeckels Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath

Lost Libraries

Lost Libraries

Frolicsome Engines The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence

Frolicsome Engines The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence

Filling in the Blanks A Prehistory of the Adult Coloring Craze

Filling in the Blanks A Prehistory of the Adult Coloring Craze

Eastern Sports and Western Bodies The “Indian Club” in the United States

Eastern Sports and Western Bodies The “Indian Club” in the United States

American Kaleidoscope Morton Prince and the Boston Revolution in Psychotherapy

American Kaleidoscope Morton Prince and the Boston Revolution in Psychotherapy

American Freedom Sinclair Lewis and the Open Road

American Freedom Sinclair Lewis and the Open Road

A Paper Archaeology Piranesi’s Ruinous Fantasias

A Paper Archaeology Piranesi’s Ruinous Fantasias

Lucian’s Trips to the Moon

Lucian’s Trips to the Moon

Inventing the Recording

Inventing the Recording

Illustrations of Madness James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom

Illustrations of Madness James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom

Fungi, Folklore, and Fairyland

Fungi, Folklore, and Fairyland

Eastern Sports and Western Bodies The “Indian Club” in the United States

Eastern Sports and Western Bodies The “Indian Club” in the United States

Darkness Over All John Robison and the Birth of the Illuminati Conspiracy

Darkness Over All John Robison and the Birth of the Illuminati Conspiracy

Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics

Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics

Mistress of a New World Early Science Fiction in Europe’s “Age of Discovery”

Mistress of a New World Early Science Fiction in Europe’s “Age of Discovery”

Luigi Russolo’s Cacophonous Futures

Luigi Russolo’s Cacophonous Futures

Lost in Translation Proust and Scott Moncrieff

Lost in Translation Proust and Scott Moncrieff

Julia Pastrana A “Monster to the Whole World”

Julia Pastrana A “Monster to the Whole World”

In the Image of God John Comenius and the First Childrens Picture Book

In the Image of God John Comenius and the First Childrens Picture Book

Ignorant Armies Private Snafu Goes to War

Ignorant Armies Private Snafu Goes to War

H G Wells and the Uncertainties of Progress

H G Wells and the Uncertainties of Progress

Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World

Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World

Audubon’s Haiti

Audubon’s Haiti

Brilliant Visions Peyote among the Aesthetes

Brilliant Visions Peyote among the Aesthetes

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

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

Brilliant Visions Peyote among the Aesthetes

Brilliant Visions Peyote among the Aesthetes

1592 Coining Columbus

1592 Coining Columbus

Get Thee to a Phalanstery or, How Fourier Can Still Teach Us to Make Lemonade

Get Thee to a Phalanstery or, How Fourier Can Still Teach Us to Make Lemonade

Forgotten Failures of African Exploration

Forgotten Failures of African Exploration

Divining the Witch of York Propaganda and Prophecy

Divining the Witch of York Propaganda and Prophecy

Brilliant Visions Peyote among the Aesthetes

Brilliant Visions Peyote among the Aesthetes

A Bestiary of Sir Thomas Browne

A Bestiary of Sir Thomas Browne

1592 Coining Columbus

1592 Coining Columbus

“More Lively Counterfaits” Experimental Imaging at the Birth of Modern Science

“More Lively Counterfaits” Experimental Imaging at the Birth of Modern Science

Scurvy and the Terra Incognita

Scurvy and the Terra Incognita

Neanderthals in 3D L’Homme de La Chapelle

Neanderthals in 3D L’Homme de La Chapelle

Loos, Lewdness, and Literature Tales from the Boghouse

Loos, Lewdness, and Literature Tales from the Boghouse

Geronimo The Warrior

Geronimo The Warrior

Lustucru From Severed Heads to Ready-Made Meals

Lustucru From Severed Heads to Ready-Made Meals

The Dust That Measures All Our Time

The Dust That Measures All Our Time

Mermaids, Tritons & The Age of Reason

Mermaids, Tritons & The Age of Reason

Marxist Astronomy

Marxist Astronomy