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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: trembling hand
    sub title: reflections of a Black woman in the romantic archive
  name:
    name part: Nabugodi, Mathelinda
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 417 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: A provocative, revelatory history of British Romanticism that examines the impact of the transatlantic slave economy on the lives and times of some of our most beloved poets, with urgent lessons for today. A scrap of Coleridge's handwriting. The sugar that Wordsworth stirred into his teacup. A bracelet made of Mary Shelley's hair. Percy Shelley's gilded baby rattle. The death mask preserving Keats's calm face. Byron's silk-lined leather boot. Who would have known there could be vast worlds contained in these items? In a completely new interpretation of the Romantics and their context, Whiting Award-winning scholar and literary sleuth Mathelinda Nabugodi uses these items to frame her interrogation of the poets, leading us on an expansive journey through time and memory, situating us in depth of their world, and her own. "Freedom, liberty, autonomy are the period's favorite words," Nabugodi writes. Romantic poets sought truth in the depth of their souls and in the mind's unbounded regions. Ideals of free speech and human rights were being forged. And yet the period was defined by a relentless commitment to the displacement and stolen labor of millions. Romanticism, she argues, can no longer be discussed without the racial violence with which it was complicit. Still, rather than using this idea to rehash Black pain and subjugation, she mines the archives for instances of resistance, beauty and joy. Nabugodi moves effortlessly between the past and present. She takes us into the physical archives, and, with startling clarity, unpacks her relationships with them, what they are and should be, who built them, how they are entwined with an industry that was the antithesis of freedom and how she feels holding the materials needed to write this book, as a someone whose ancestry is largely absent from their ledgers. The Trembling Hand presents a dazzling new way of reading the past. This transfixing, evocative book reframes not only the lives of the legendary Romantics, but als…
  note: Mathelinda Nabugodi.
  note: "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Romanticism
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PS217.R6 N33 2025
  classification: 820.9
  identifier: 9780593536469
  identifier: 0593536460
  identifier: 9780593536476
  identifier: 2025937934
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250724
    record change date: 20251003201403.8
    record identifier: in00005662634