The Trembling Hand - Book Launch

The Keats-Shelley House is please to invite you to the book launch of

The Trembling Hand, Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive 

by Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi on Thursday 19th June at 4:30 pm

Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi will be in conversation with Prof Florian Mussgnug about her book The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive. This will be followed by a reception.

Romantic poetry is associated with sublime passions, violent stormscapes and a questing search for the inner self. It is rarely associated with the racial politics of the transatlantic slave economy. Yet slavery was one of the biggest political issues of the Romantic period. The Trembling Hand examines how the lives and works of the great Romantic poets were entangled with the racist realities of their age in both material and symbolic ways. This conversation will start from a meditation on Keats’s death mask and Byron’s carnival mask, both of which are on display in the Keats-Shelley House. 

Admission is free but booking is required due to the limited number of spaces (write to info@keats-shelley-house.org).

Entry from 4:15 p.m. onwards.

Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at University College London and currently a fellow at the British School at Rome.

Prof Florian Mussgnug is a professor of Comparative Literature and Italian studies at University College London and Roma Tre Universities.