The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Vol. 5

The Public Domain Review Essay Collections #5

by Adam Green (Editor)

Witches, walruses, doomsdays, death masks, utopias, enormous hair, unlikely Aztecs, telepathic dreams, a dictionary of demons, and the art of hiding in taxidermied cows.

Fourteen of our best essays from 2017 — full colour with more than 100 illustrations, all printed on sumptuous 70lb paper.

“An Aladdin’s cave of curiosities” — The Guardian

Adam Green
Introduction

Natalie Lawrence
Decoding the Morse: The History of 16th-Century Narcoleptic Walruses

Jon Crabb
Woodcuts and Witches

Jason Pearl
Defoe and the Distance to Utopia

Dominic Janes
A Queer Taste for Macaroni

Kevin Duong
Flash Mob: Revolution, Lightning, and the People’s Will

Sujaan Mukherjee
W. B. O’Shaughnessy and the Introduction of Cannabis to Modern Western Medicine

Rhys Griffiths
Brief Encounters with Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck

Ed Simon
Defining the Demonic

Alicia Puglionesi
Lofty Only in Sound: Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams

D. Graham Burnett
Out From Behind This Mask

Carl Abbott
Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly

Bernd Brunner
Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath

Eva Moreda Rodríguez
Inventing the Recording

John Bevis
Stuffed Ox, Dummy Tree, Artificial Rock: Deception in the Work of Richard and Cherry Kearton

Genres: History

208 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2018