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Ferociously intelligent, lyrical, and true, The Trembling Hand is a hero''s journey through the beauty of poetry and the nightmare of history--and sometimes the other way around. Nabugodi has done something at once wholly original and utterly Romantic. This book marks the advent of a new criticism, or should>
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Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at University College London. Previously she was a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, where she researched the literary archive of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a Research Associate in the Literary and Artistic Archive at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
She completed her doctorate at UCL, where she was the first person ever to be awarded a PhD in Creative Critical Writing by the university, for her thesis on Shelley and Walter Benjamin. She is the author of Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic, and has edited Shelley’s translations from Aeschylus, Calderón and Goethe for The Poems of Shelley, as well as the essay collection Thinking Through Relation: Encounters in Creative Critical Writing.
The Trembling Hand is her first trade book. Its research was partly funded by a Whiting Creative Non-fiction Grant.
