All the Time in the World

by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins

  New York Times. “Blondin at Home.” November 20, 1884.

  ———. “Blondin Carries a Man Across Niagara River on His Shoulders.” August 22, 1859.

  ———. “Blondin Crosses the Niagara River with a Cook-Stove, and Cooks an Omelet.” August 26, 1859.

  ———. “Blondin, the Rope Walker.” June 5, 1888.

  ———. “Blondin’s Last Performance.” July 18, 1859.

  ———. “An Exciting Scene: M. Blondin’s Feat at Niagara Falls.” July 4, 1859.

  ———. “A Fool and His Feat.” June 28, 1859.

  ———. “The Prince at Niagara.” September 17, 1860.

  ———. “Ropewalker Blondin Dead.” February 23, 1897.

  BICYCLES OVERTAKE THE BOIS

  Crane, Diana. Fashion and Its Social Agendas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

  Herlihy, David V. Bicycle: The History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

  Illustrated American. “On the Fascinating Wheel.” June 4, 1892.

  Montgomery, Maureen E. Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton’s New York. New York: Routledge, 1998.

  New York Times. “Paris as Seen by an American Girl.” March 18, 1900.

  ———. “Woman, the Tolerant Sex.” October 3, 1897.

  Olian, JoAnne, ed. Victorian and Edwardian Fashions from “La Mode Illustrée.” Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 1998.

  Perrot, Philippe. Fashioning the Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century. Translated by Richard Bienvenu. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994.

  Proust, Marcel. Swann’s Way. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. New York: Modern Library, 1928.

  Smith, Robert A. A Social History of the Bicycle, Its Early Life and Times in America. New York: American Heritage Press, 1972.

  Stedman, Edmund Clarence. The Complete Pocket-Guide to Europe. New York: William R. Jenkins, 1913.

  Steele, Valerie. Paris Fashion: A Cultural History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

  RAINBOWS BRIGHTEN THE HORIZON

  Bloom, Harold, ed. William Wordsworth. New York: Chelsea House, 1985.

  Epstein, Julia L., and Mark L. Greenberg. “Decomposing Newton’s Rainbow.” Journal of the History of Ideas 45, no. 1 (January–March, 1984): 115–140.

  Hart-Davis, Adam, ed. DK Science: The Definitive Visual Guide. New York: DK Publishing, 2009.

  Hughes-Hallett, Penelope. “The Mystery of the Rainbow.” New England Review 23, no. 4 (Fall 2002): 131–145.

  Milner, Thomas. The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation. London: Wm. S. Orr, 1852.

  Pendergrast, Mark. Mirror, Mirror: A History of the Human Love Affair with Reflection. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

  Werrett, Simon. “Wonders Never Cease: Descartes’s ‘Météores’ and the Rainbow Fountain.” British Journal for the History of Science 34, no. 2 (June 2001): 129–147.

  POETS OF THE ORCHID PAVILION

  Addiss, Stephen. Old Taoist: The Life, Art and Poetry of Kodo¯jin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

  Fu, Li-tsui Flora. Framing Famous Mountains: Grand Tour and Mingshan Paintings in Sixteenth-Century China. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2009.

  Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing: The “Wakan ro¯ei shu¯.” Translated and edited by Thomas J. Rimer and Jonathan Chaves. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

  Johnston, R. Stewart. Scholar Gardens of China: A Study and Analysis of the Spatial Design of the Chinese Private Garden. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

  Keswick, Maggie. The Chinese Garden: History, Art & Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1978.

  Mair, Victor H., ed. The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

  Minford, John, and Joseph S. Lau, eds. Classical Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

  Thacker, Christopher. The History of Gardens. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

  TRAMP POETS SEEK SHELTER

  Brevda, William. Harry Kemp, the Last Bohemian. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1986.

  Lindsay, Vachel. Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. New York: M. Kennerley, 1914.

  ———. A Handy Guide for Beggars. New York: Macmillan, 1916.

  ———. Letters of Vachel Lindsay. Edited by Marc Chénetier. New York: B. Franklin, 1978.

  Lummis, Charles F. A Tramp Across the Continent. 1892. Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1985.

  Massa, Ann. “The Artistic Conscience of Vachel Lindsay.” Journal of American Studies 2, no. 2 (October 1968): 239–252.

  THE MINIATURE WORLD COMES INTO FOCUS

  Catlow, Agnes. Drops of Water. London: Reeve & Benham, 1851.

  Gooday, Graeme. “ ‘Nature’ in the Laboratory: Domestication and Discipline with the Microscope in Victorian Life Science.” British Journal for the History of Science 24, no. 3 (September 1991): 307–341.

  Gosse, Philip Henry. Evenings at the Microscope. 1859. New York: Collier, 1902.

  Hager, Thomas. The Demon Under the Microscope: From the Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor’s Heroic Search for the World’s First Miracle Drug. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006.

  Hooke, Robert. Micrographia. 1665. New York: Dover, 1961.

  Kent, Paul, and Allan Chapman, eds. Robert Hooke and the English Renaissance. Leominster, U.K.: Gracewing, 2005.

  Schickore, Jutta. The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections, 1740–1870. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

  Turner, Gerard L’E. “Scientific Toys.” British Journal for the History of Science 20, no. 4 (October 1987): 377–398.

  THE SHADOWS COME ALIVE

  Keene, Donald. Five Modern Japanese Novelists. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

  ———. Landscapes and Portraits: Appreciations of Japanese Culture. New York: Kodansha International, 1971.

  Lopate, Philip, ed. The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. New York: Anchor Books, 1994.

  Tanizaki, Jun’ichiro¯. In Praise of Shadows. Translated by Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker. New Haven: Leete’s Island Books, 1977.

  DIARISTS TAKE NOTE

  Ariès, Philippe, and Georges Duby, gen. eds. A History of Private Life. Vol. 3, Passions of the Renaissance, edited by Roger Charier. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press/Belknap Press, 1989.

  Century, The. “Diaries and Journals.” Vol. 25. 1883.

  Jerome, W. S. “How to Keep a Journal.” St. Nicholas, 5, no. 12. (October 1878).

  Speake, Jennifer. Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003.

  Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell. Vol. 1, 1915–1919. London: Hogarth Press, 1977.

  ———. A Writer’s Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Leonard Woolf. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1954]1982.

  GONDOLAS DRIFT

  Art Journal. “Every-Day Life at Venice.” Vol. 7. 1881.

  Berendt, John. The City of Falling Angels. New York: Penguin Press, 2005.

  Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts. “A Day in a Gondola.” Vol. 42. May 6, 1865.

  Dearborn, Mary V. Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

  Doty, Robert C. “Whither the Gondola.” New York Times, May 22, 1965.

  Gill, Anton. Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

  New York Times. “Gondolas Give Way to Motor Boats.” July 21, 1909.

  ———. “Peggy Guggenheim, Modern Art Collector, Dies in an Italian Hospital at 81.” December 24, 1979.

  ———. “Venice, Queen of the Sea.” November 1, 1880.

  Toth, Susan Allen. “Venice’s Trove to Ties to the Sea.” New York Times, November 7, 1993.

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bsp; Weld, Jacqueline Bograd. Peggy, the Wayward Guggenheim. New York: Dutton, 1986.

  FRUIT MAKES JAM

  Foden, Giles. “Nostradamus and His Pot of Jam.” Guardian, March 31, 2006.

  Glasse, Hannah. The Complete Confectioner. London: J. Cooke, 1770.

  Patmore, Katherine Alexandra. The Court of Louis XIII. London: Methuen, 1910.

  Richardson, Tim. Sweets: A History of Candy. New York: MJF Books, 2005.

  Shephard, Sue. Pickled, Potted, and Canned: The Story of Food Preserving. London: Headline, 2000.

  Spencer, Colin. British Food. London: Grub Street, 2002.

  Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Translated by Anthea Bell. Chichester, U.K., and Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

  Wilson, C. Anne. The Book of Marmalade. rev. ed. Totnes, U.K.: Prospect Books, 1999.

  Ziedrich, Linda. The Joy of Jams, Jellies, and Other Sweet Preserves. Boston: Harvard Common Press, 2009.

  PORCH DWELLERS LINGER

  Cline, Sally. Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Arcade, 2003.

  Dolan, Michael. The American Porch: An Informal History of an Informal Place. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2002.

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, and Zelda Fitzgerald. Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.

  Gourley, Catherine. Flappers, and the New American Woman: Perceptions of Women from 1913 Through the 1920s. Minneapolis, Minn.: Twenty-First Century Books, 2008.

  Gressor, Megan. An Affair to Remember: The Greatest Love Stories of All Times. Gloucester, Mass.: Fair Winds Press, 2004.

  Maynard, William Barksdale. Architecture in the United States 1800–1850. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

  Out on the Porch: An Evocation in Words and Pictures. Introduction by Reynolds Price. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992.

  STREETLIGHTS FLICKER

  Ackroyd, Peter. London: The Biography. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2000.

  Ambrosini, Richard, and Richard Dury, eds. Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.

  Jakle, John A. City Lights: Illuminating the American Night. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

  Jonnes, Jill. Eiffel’s Tower: And the World’s Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count. New York: Viking, 2009.

  Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century. Translated by Angela Davies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

  Schlör, Joachim. Night in the Big City: Paris, Berlin, London 1840–1930. London: Reaktion Books, 1998.

  Scientific American. “The Sun Column Designed for Lighting Entire Paris.” April 11, 1885.

  Stevenson, Robert Louis. Virginibus Puerisque. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1905.

  INCENSE IN THE AIR

  Bedini, Silvio A. “The Scent of Time. A Study of the Use of Fire and Incense for Time Measurement in Oriental Countries.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. New Series. Vol. 53, no. 5 (1963): 1–5.

  ———. The Trail of Time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

  Hearn, Lafcadio. In Ghostly Japan. Boston: Little, Brown, 1899.

  Morita, Kiyoko. The Book of Incense. New York: Kodansha International, 1992.

  OPERA FANS MAKE AN ENTRANCE

  Barbier, Patrick. Opera in Paris, 1800–1850: A Lively History. Translated by Robert Luoma. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1995.

  Feldman, Martha. Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

  Fenner, Theodore. Opera in London: Views of the Press, 1785–1830. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.

  Illustrated American. “The Close of the Opera.” Vol. 6. March 28, 1891.

  Johnson, James H. Listening in Paris: A Cultural History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

  Kimbell, David R. B. Italian Opera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

  ———. Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

  Lindenberger, Herbert. Opera, the Extravagant Art. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984.

  Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

  Wagner, Richard. Wagner on Music and Drama: A Compendium of Richard Wagner’s Prose Works. Selected and arranged by Albert Goldman and Evert Sprinchorn. Translated by H. Ashton Ellis. 1964. New York: Da Capo, 1988.

  MOVING PICTURES UNFURL

  Baugh, Christopher. “Philippe de Loutherbourg: Technology-Driven Entertainment and Spectacle in the Late Eighteenth Century.” Huntington Library Quarterly 70, no. 2 (June 2007): 251–268.

  Bermingham, Ann. “Introduction: Gainsborough’s Show Box: Illusion and Special Effects in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Huntington Library Quarterly 70, no. 2 (June 2007): 203–208.

  Brewer, John. “Sensibility and the Urban Panorama.” Huntington Library Quarterly 70, no. 2 (June 2007): 229–249.

  Griffiths, Alison. Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

  Joppien, Rudiger. Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740–1812). London: Greater London Council, 1973.

  Liu, Alan. “Toward a Theory of Common Sense: Beckford’s ‘Vathek’ and Johnson’s ‘Rasselas.’ ” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 26, no. 2 (Summer 1984): 183–217.

  Terpak, Frances. “Free Time, Free Spirit: Popular Entertainments in Gainsborough’s Era.” Huntington Library Quarterly 70, no. 2 (2007): 209–228.

  SARAH BERNHARDT PLAYS HAMLET

  Anderson, Joseph L. Enter a Samurai. Tuscon, Ariz.: Wheatmark, 2011.

  Cambridge Companion to the Actress, The. Edited by Maggie B. Gale and John Stokes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

  Gottlieb, Robert. Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.

  Howard, Tony. Women as Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film, and Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

  Huret, Jules. Sarah Bernhardt. London: Chapman & Hall, 1899.

  Kemp, Theresa D. Women in the Age of Shakespeare. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Press, 2010.

  Literary Digest. “Sarah Bernhardt’s Hamlet.” Vol. 19. July 8, 1899.

  Mullenix, Elizabeth Reitz. Wearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

  New York Times. “Bernhardt’s New Hamlet.” June 4, 1899.

  ———. “Catulle Mendes in a Duel.” May 24, 1899.

  Roberts, Mary Louis. Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siècle France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

  Shudofsky, Maurice M. “Sarah Bernhardt on Hamlet.” College English 3, no. 3 (December 1941): 293–295.

  World Shakespeare Conference (1976: Washington, D.C.). Shakespeare, Pattern of Excelling Nature: Shakespeare Criticism in Honor of America’s Bicentenniel. Edited by David M. Bevington and Jay L. Halio. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1978.

  LET THE HANKY-PANKY BEGIN

  Butterworth, Philip. Magic on the Early English Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

  Chrysti, the Wordsmith. Verbivore’s Feast: A Banquet of Word & Phrase Origins. Helena, Mo.: Farcounty Press, 2004.

  During, Simon. Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, and General Information, The. 11th ed. Edited by Hugh Chisholm. Vol. 6. New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica,1910.

  Houdini, Harry. Games of Skill; and Conjuring. London: Warne & Routledge, 1862.

  Lane, Edward William. An Account of the Manners and Customs of
the Modern Egyptians. London: C. Knight, 1836.

  Paton-Williams, David. Katterfelto: Prince of Puff. Leicester, U.K.: Matador, 2008.

  Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène, Memoirs of Robert-Houdin: Ambassador, Author, and Conjurer. Edited by R. Shelton Mackenzie. Philadelphia: G. G. Evan, 1859.

  Stafford, Barbara Maria. Artful Science: Enlightenment, Entertainment, and the Eclipse of Visual Education. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994.

  LADIES AND GENTS DRESS FOR DINNER

  Durant, David N. Where Queen Elizabeth Slept & What the Butler Saw. 1st U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

  Freeman, Ira Henry. “The Tuxedo at 69, Gayer Than Ever.” New York Times, October 10, 1955.

  Lennox, Doug. Now You Know Royalty. Toronto: Dundum Press, 2009.

  New York Times. “Evening Gowns and White Tie and Tails Latest War Casualties, Cleaners Say.” February 26, 1943.

  ———. “Value of the ‘Society’ Way.” September 17, 1893.

  Schrock, Joel. The Gilded Age. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.

  Vanity Fair. “Our London Letter on Men’s Fashions.” January 1923.

  Womanhood. [Untitled article]. Vol. 17. December, 1906.

  RUTH ST. DENIS HEADS EAST

  Coorlawala, Uttara Asha. “Ruth St. Denis and India’s Dance Renaissance.” Dance Chronicle 15, no. 2 (1992): 123–152.

  Cullen, Frank, with Florence Hackman and Donald McNeily. Vaudeville, Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America. 2 vols. New York: Routledge, 2007.

  Desmond, Jane. “Dancing Out the Difference: Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis’s ‘Radha’ of 1906. Signs 17, no. 1 (Autumn 1991): 28–49.

  New York Times. “Bringing Temple Dances from the Orient to Broadway.” March 25, 1906.

  Shelton, Suzanne. Divine Dancer: A Biography of Ruth St. Denis. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981.

  Sherman, Jane. The Drama of Denishawn Dance. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1979.