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

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>

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mathelinda Nabugodi
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 23.07.2026
• EAN: 9780241997208
• ISBN: 978-0-241-99720-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Poetry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, c 1800 to c 1900, Colonialism & imperialism, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social discrimination & inequality, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Romanticism, Colonialism and imperialism, Relating to Black British people, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Biography: writers, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, POETRY / American / African American & Black, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Black & Asian Studies, Literary studies: poetry and poets, C 1700 To C 1800, HISTORY / African American & Black, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery, ART / Movements / Romanticism, Classic poetry / poems