From synesthetic auras and skeletal tableaux to brainwashing machines and truth-revealing diseases; from laughing gas and cocaine-fuelled poems to Byronic vampires and petty pirates — together these fifteen essays chart a wonderfully curious course through the last five hundred years of history.
Adam Green
Introduction
Joseph Nigg
Olaus Magnus’ Sea Serpent
Charles McNamara
In the Image of God: John Comenius and the First Children’s Picture Book
Luuc Kooijmans
Frederik Ruysch: The Artist of Death
Bert van de Roemer
Redressing the Balance: Levinus Vincent’s Wonder Theatre of Nature
Simon Werrett
Picturing Pyrotechnics
Ben Merriman
Piracy at the Old Bailey
Raphael Calel
The Founding Fathers v. The Climate Change Skeptics
Mike Jay
Illustrations of Madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
Mike Jay
“O, Excellent Air Bag”: Humphry Davy and Nitrous Oxide
Andrew McConnell Stott
The Poet, the Physician, and the Birth of the Modern Vampire
Stassa Edwards
The Naturalist and the Neurologist: On Charles Darwin and James Crichton-Browne
Abigail Walthausen
Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance: Dan Carter Beard’s Foray into Fiction
Benjamin Breen
Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia
Richard Millington
Wild Heart Turning White: Georg Trakl and Cocaine
Ed Simon
Ghostwriter and Ghost: Thee Strange Case of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth
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