Volcanoes, coffee, talking trees, pigs on trial, painted smiles, lost Edens, the social life of geometry, a cat called Jeoffry, lepidopterous spying, monkey-eating poets, imaginary museums, a woman pregnant with rabbits, an invented language drowning in umlauts, a disgruntled Proust, frustrated Flaubert… and much much more. Spread across six themed chapters – Animals, Bodies, Words, Worlds, Encounters and Networks – the book includes a stellar line up of contributors, including Jack Zipes, Frank Delaney, Arika Okrent, Noga Arikha, and Julian Barnes.
Adam Green
Introduction
Animals
Nicholas Humphrey
Bugs and Beasts Before the Law
Niki Russell
Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits
Frank Key
Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno
Mark Kaufman
Robert Baden-Powell’s Entomological Intrigues
Bodies
Nicholas Jeeves
The Serious and the Smirk
Noga Arikha
As a Lute out of Tune: Robert Burton’s Melancholy
George Prochnik
American Kaleidoscope: Morton Prince and the Boston Revolution in Psychotherapy
Marri Lynn
Vesalius and the Body Metaphor
Alicia Puglionesi
Proving it: The American Provers’ Union Documents Certain Ill Effects
Richard Lines
The Erotic Dreams of Emanuel Swedenborg
Andrew McConnell Stott
The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
Words
William C. Carter
Lost in Translation: Proust and Scott Moncrieff
Michael Erard
The Polyglot of Bologna
Arika Okrent
Trüth, Beaüty, and Volapük
Daniel Stolzenberg
Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx
Richard Hamblyn
The Krakatoa Sunsets
Frank Delaney
Seeing Joyce
Worlds
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
The Last Great Explorer: William F. Warren and the Search for Eden
Max Adams
John Martin and the Theatre of Subversion
Peter Fitting
Stories of a Hollow Earth
Ian Stewart
Aspiring to a Higher Plane
Claire Preston
Lost Libraries
John Glassie
Athanasius, Underground
Colin Dickey
The Redemption of Saint Anthony
Encounters
Julian Barnes
An Unlikely Lunch: When Maupassant met Swinburne
Edward Duyker
Labillardière and his Relation
Ray Davis
Tales from Tahiti
Brian Murray
Henry Morton Stanley and the Pygmies of “Darkest Africa”
Robert C. Davis
Slavery in North Africa — The Famous Story of Captain James Riley
Networks
Matthew Green
The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse
Jonathan Lamb
The Implacability of Things
Robin Jarvis
Still Booking on De Quincey’s Mail-Coach
Anca Pusca
On Benjamin’s Public (Oeuvre)
Jack Zipes
The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm
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