Robertson, Michael. Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples [review]

Walt Whitman: Nineteenth-century Popular Culture

Walt Whitman and Louis Sullivan: The Aesthetics of Egalitarianism

"Two More Throws against Oblivion": Walt Whitman and the New York Herald in 1888

Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler: a poet and his physician

follows with a wonderful piece on the cataloguing of the monstrous from the cabinet to the collections and representations of embryological monsters. Roy Porter, too, fills in the details for the eighteenth century. His brilliant essay on "monsters and the mad" fills in the conceptual gap which Zapperi leaves between these two categories. He shows how both categories reinforce each other on the...

The Legacies of Yukawa and His Disciples

I review and discuss the historical roles Hideki Yukawa and his disciples, Shoichi Sakata in particular, played in developing what we now call particle physics, including their personal and cultural aspects.