Today interviews proliferate everywhere: in newspapers, on television, and in anthologies;
as a method they are a major tool of medicine, the law, the social sciences, oral history …

“Many late Victorians, especially after the Wilde trial, felt that close attention had to be paid to
identifying whatever was degenerate in society to ensure that degenerate characteristics …

Two distinctly different meanings of piracy are ingeniously intertwined in Monica Cohen's
lively new book, which shows how popular depictions of the pirate held sway on the page …

Abstract “Sensation” in the early 1860s was more than just a series of scandalous novels.
Critics hurled the insult at any object that courted novelty, from mouthwash to photographs …

Borrowing its title from Oscar Wilde's essay" The Decay of Lying," this study engages
questions of fraudulent authorship in the literary afterlife of Oscar Wilde. The unique cultural …

Has the Internet, in addition to freeing knowledge, driving us to distraction, and allowing us
to shop without leaving the house, also radically changed celebrity culture? To answer this …

Many of the greatest works in the operatic repertoire bear the hallmarks of modernism. At
first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellows—the former hostile to …

This essay explores the disputed origins of the first karaoke machine and explains how
karaoke eventually evolved into a term of judgment in star-making media such as reality …

Winner of the 2020 Best Book in the Nineteenth Century Award presented by the Nineteenth
Century Section of the Latin American Studies Association As Argentina rose to political and …

1880s, the movement's refractory reception history is an object lesson in how avant-gardes
burst upon the scene, dispense with their posture of antagonism, and get incorporated. My …