Cecil Dreeme Paula Merlán and the nature of science

and the nature of science together

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Racial Indigestion sheds light on contemporary “foodie” culture’s vexed relationship to nativism

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author of The Sibley Guide to Trees and The Sibley Guide to Birds

Cecil Dreeme Paula Merlán and the nature of scienceA curious gem of 19th century gothic fiction Cecil Dreeme is one of the queerest American novels of the 19th century. This edition, which includes a new introduction contextualizing the sexual history of the period and queer longings of the book, brings a rare, almost forgotten, sensational gothic novel set in New Yorks West Village back to light. Published posthumously in 1861, the novel centers on Robert Byng, a young man who moves back to New York