Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame, the
closet was one of the most charged settings in English architecture. This private room …

Eighteenth-century British narratives describing female cross-dressers often attempt to
explain how the cross-dresser performs maleness despite her lack of certain physical …

The correspondence of the actress Auguste Brede (1784–1859) with the well-known
intellectual Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771–1833) allows a unique glimpse into a …

Throughout the latter decades of the eighteenth century, popular print culture was a central
arena for the negotiation of competing societal discourses. As the cultural narratives of elite …