Kabuki heroes on the Osaka stage, 1780-1830

The much-anticipated sequel to Butch Heroes, an ingenious retelling of history that combines portraits and texts to recover—and celebrate—queer subjects from around the world. ...

African American literature in the years between 1800 and 1830 emerged from significant transitions in the cultural, technological, and political circulation of ideas. Transformati...

Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation: Luke–Acts as Rival to the Aeneid argues that the author of Luke–Acts composed not a history but a foundation mythology to rival Vergil’s...

The author’s medical heroes are recognized not only for their scientific accomplishments but also for their public actions to benefit humankind in general. Thomas Hodgkin is famous...

As much as we may look for continuities across historical divides, the Interregnum and the closing of the theatres produced many kinds of fracture in the ways Shakespeare’s tragedi...

Abstract This book offers the first handbook of early modern colour printmaking in Europe in the late hand-press period, 1700–1830. It begins with the invention of f...

Motivated by greed and sadism—or perhaps by poverty and boredom—star-crossed lovers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow set out on a series of robberies throughout the American Southwes...