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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 tha... 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 that... 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

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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.