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Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain (2024)
Journal Article
Gust, O. (2024). Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain. Gender and History, 36(1), 112-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12769

The figure of the monster has long been used by trans and intersex scholars, artists and activists to articulate their sense of being in a world dominated by binary, cisgender norms. Yet what does it mean to embrace ‘the monstrous’ and how might that... Read More about Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain.

Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain (2024)
Journal Article
GUST, O. (2024). Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. Gender and History, 36(1), 112-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12769

The figure of the monster has long been used by trans and intersex scholars, artists, and activists to articulate their sense of being in a world dominated by binary, cisgender norms. Yet what does it mean to embrace ‘the monstrous’ and how might tha... Read More about Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain.

Jess Keiser. Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2020. Pp. 311. $85 (cloth). (2023)
Journal Article
Gust, O. (2023). Jess Keiser. Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2020. Pp. 311. $85 (cloth). Journal of British Studies, 62(1), 248-249. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2022.204

Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review (2022)
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Charles, A., Hare-Duke, L., Nudds, H., Franklin, D., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., …Slade, M. (2022). Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review. PLoS ONE, 17(5), Article e0266722. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266722

Content and trigger warnings give information about the content of material prior to receiving it. Different typologies of content warnings have emerged across multiple sectors, including health, social media, education and entertainment. Benefits ar... Read More about Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review.

Disability as a Problem of Humanity in Scottish Enlightenment Thought (2021)
Journal Article
Gust, O., & Cleall, E. (2022). Disability as a Problem of Humanity in Scottish Enlightenment Thought. Historical Journal, 65(2), 328-348. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X21000133

This article makes a case that disability, particularly visual, hearing, and speech impairments, played a significant role in Scottish Enlightenment thought. Focusing on the work of Dugald Stewart, and in particular on his essay 'Some account of a bo... Read More about Disability as a Problem of Humanity in Scottish Enlightenment Thought.

Jane Lydon. Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire. Critical Perspectives on Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 234. $99.99 (cloth). (2021)
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Gust, O. (2021). Jane Lydon. Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire. Critical Perspectives on Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 234. $99.99 (cloth). Journal of British Studies, 60(1), 242-243. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2020.179

"The perilous territory of not belonging": exile and empire in Sir James Mackintosh's letters from early nineteenth-century Bombay (2018)
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Gust, O. (2018). "The perilous territory of not belonging": exile and empire in Sir James Mackintosh's letters from early nineteenth-century Bombay. History Workshop Journal, 86, 22–43. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dby013

Mobility, gender and empire in Maria Graham's Journal of a Residence in India (1812) (2017)
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Gust, O. (2017). Mobility, gender and empire in Maria Graham's Journal of a Residence in India (1812). Gender and History, 29(2), 273-291. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12294

A book by a young lady, who probably went to India like most young ladies, to procure a husband instead of information, is a literary curiosity which we are not disposed to overlook.

What is Radical History Now? (2017)
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Gust, O. (2017). What is Radical History Now?. History Workshop Journal, 83(1), 230-240. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbx006

Remembering and forgetting the Scottish Highlands: Sir James Mackintosh and the forging of a British imperial identity (2013)
Journal Article
Gust, O. (2013). Remembering and forgetting the Scottish Highlands: Sir James Mackintosh and the forging of a British imperial identity. Journal of British Studies, 52(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2013.114

This article explores the formation of British imperial identity through a focus on the career of Sir James Mackintosh (1765–1832), a well-known Whig intellectual and imperial careerist who originally hailed from the Highlands of Scotland. Using Mack... Read More about Remembering and forgetting the Scottish Highlands: Sir James Mackintosh and the forging of a British imperial identity.