Preface by the Editor-in-Chief

Abstract

We celebrate our fifth birthday with a special digest issue that brings together a selection of articles from past issues that focus on the body, its identities and rhythmic capabilities. From Symons’s infatuation with flamenco, to non-normative masculinity in Monsieur Phocas, to decadent Hollywood, to the medico-literary in Lombroso and Nordau, to staged historicism: we have travelled a long way since our first issue on Arthur Symons in 2018.