Examines the life and work of James Bogardus, who invented several new methods of iron building construction and whose cast-iron structures were the forerunners of the modern skyscraper. Describes how
In Scandal Work: James Joyce, the New Journalism, and the Home Rule Newspaper Wars, Margot Gayle Backus charts the rise of the newspaper sex scandal across the fin de siecle British archipelago and ex
Tales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. Such recurring tropes are examined in this pioneering study by M
