Read on Twitter
I'm not going to do a hashtag syllabus thing, but here's stuff to read and listen to if you want to think more about my read of "Bridgerton"
Imoinda's Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759–1808
https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/51810
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Imoinda's Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759–1808
https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/51810
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For more on The Woman of Colour, A Tale
Here is @kerry_sinanan talking to @BonnetsAtDawn
https://soundcloud.com/bonnetsatdawn/s45-e2-the-woman-of-colour-wprof-kerry-sinanan
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Here is @kerry_sinanan talking to @BonnetsAtDawn
https://soundcloud.com/bonnetsatdawn/s45-e2-the-woman-of-colour-wprof-kerry-sinanan
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No spoilers here, but a moment in the series has me thinking of @ParisNoire's. Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
https://ugapress.org/book/9780820354323/venus-noire/
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https://ugapress.org/book/9780820354323/venus-noire/
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In the 90s (what my students refer to as "back in the day")
Gretchen Gerzina wrote Black London: Life before Emancipation
https://www.dartmouth.edu/library/digital/publishing/books/gerzina1995/
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Gretchen Gerzina wrote Black London: Life before Emancipation
https://www.dartmouth.edu/library/digital/publishing/books/gerzina1995/
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Here I am on sugar bowls
"For critics and scholars interested in this moment—both its philanthropic sheen and its self-serving undercurrents—these teapots reveal the complexity of one of the first political causes British women publicly embraced."
5+ https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/serving-tea-cause
"For critics and scholars interested in this moment—both its philanthropic sheen and its self-serving undercurrents—these teapots reveal the complexity of one of the first political causes British women publicly embraced."
5+ https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/serving-tea-cause
I thought the thread about Haiti was very interesting. Also, just in case you don't know @FictionsofHaiti
Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865
6+ https://global.oup.com/academic/product/tropics-of-haiti-9781781381854?cc=us&lang=en&
Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865
6+ https://global.oup.com/academic/product/tropics-of-haiti-9781781381854?cc=us&lang=en&
And you should also read
All the Devils Are Here
How the visual history of the Haitian Revolution misrepresents Black suffering and death.
7+ https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/all-devils-are-here
All the Devils Are Here
How the visual history of the Haitian Revolution misrepresents Black suffering and death.
7+ https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/all-devils-are-here
