Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Book
Hysteria as a disease no longer exists, but in the nineteenth century hysteria was thought to affect...
Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited
Book
In Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited, newly published in a revised, extended and re-designed...
El Lissitzky
Book
El (Eleazar) Lissitzky (1890-1941) was a vital force in the revolutionary period in Russia. Having...
Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York
Book
Queer people have always flocked to New York seeking freedom, forging close-knit groups for support...
John Ruskin
Book
John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the most prominent art and architecture critic of his day. His books,...
The Lost Prince: The Life & Death of Henry Stuart
Catharine MacLeod, Malcolm Smuts and Timothy Wilks
Book
This exploration of Henry's life and image, and the extraordinary reaction to his death, transforms...
Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra
Book
This book features a natural selection: Ford's beautifully savage beasts and birds. Walton Ford's...
A History of the Grandparents I Never Had
Book
Ivan Jablonka's grandparents' lives ended long before his began: although Mates and Idesa Jablonka...
Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma: Making a Catholic Self, 388-401 C.E.: Volume 2
Book
By 388 C.E., Augustine had broken with the Manichaeism of his early adulthood and wholeheartedly...
Coryat's Crudities: Selections
Thomas Coryate and Philip S. Palmer
Book
The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryate's five-month tour of Western Europe culminated...