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Essaka Joshua
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Professor of English | Disability Studies | Romanticism & 19th Century | Ess-AH-kuh. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 she/her. Please stop reversing my name. Not on X.
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Yay, someone quoted me. Boo, they reversed my name. It’s right there on the cover. Shouldn’t be this hard.
Essaka, J. (2020). physical Disability in British Romantic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
December 19, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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Does anyone know what a “tall daughter” is? Is that a grown-up daughter, or one who is not short, or something else?
The moral nurture of a tall daughter can no more be administered by a mother whose time is absorbed by crowds abroad…
December 12, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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A big thank you to @profchander.bsky.social for including my essay on “ Disability & Race” in a vol much needed in the ‘80s, when I was an undergrad. Thanks, too, to St Hugh’s Oxford, for letting me air my work as the Lady Ademola lecture. Lady Ademola is an inspiration.
The front cover of The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism & Race, edited by Manu Chander. The cover picture is of Kehinde Wiley’s Prelude. In the art work a Black youth in a long overcoat is viewed from behind, and replaces the central figure in Caspar David Friedrich’s famous painting of a solitary figure looking out across misty mountain tops. The first page of chapter 6, Disability & Race by Essaka Joshua
December 11, 2024 at 2:17 AM
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Arrived today. Seriously looking forward to jumping in!
Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Gothic and Romantic Literary Culture by Dale Townshend. University of Wales Press, 2024.
November 15, 2024 at 3:25 AM