Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660-1834

By Kate Gibson Author Interviews

What were the consequences of illegitimacy in the long eighteenth century?

Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

By Leo Damrosch Author Interviews

Everyone has heard of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), but who was the man behind the myth?

The Queer Case of Catherine/Giovanni Vizzani

By Ula Klein Early Modern

What does the case of Catherine/Giovanni Vizzani reveal about gender identity and sexual desire in the Eighteenth Century?

The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy

By Danielle Bobker Author Interviews, LGBTQ

Why was the eighteenth-century closet associated with illicit and transgressive sexuality?

Three’s a Crowd?: Navigating a Love Triangle in Enlightenment France

By Meghan Roberts Early Modern

How an Enlightenment philosopher understood the love between his mistress and her sister

Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination

By Noelle Gallagher Author Interviews, Early Modern, Medicine and the Body, United Kingdom

How venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art.

“Well Known as Miss Betty Cooper”: Gender Expression in 18th-Century Boston

By Caitlin Hopkins Early America, Trans

One 1771 advertisement sought the recapture of an enslaved person known by two names: Cato and Miss Betty Cooper.