Walt Whitman and Thomas Mann

Walt Whitman: Nineteenth-century Popular Culture

Walt Whitman and Louis Sullivan: The Aesthetics of Egalitarianism

Thomas Mann: Eros and literature

This is a major contribution to the expanding field of the history of alternative medicine in Germany. Martin Dinges, historian and archivist of the Homeopathy Archives of the Robert Bosch Institute for the History of Medicine, demands a new approach towards the history of homeopathy in order to overcome the traditional interest, which concentrated mainly on Samuel Hahnemann and the effect of c...

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...

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