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.

Essaka, J. (2020). physical Disability in British Romantic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
The moral nurture of a tall daughter can no more be administered by a mother whose time is absorbed by crowds abroad…
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.
Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Gothic and Romantic Literary Culture by Dale Townshend. University of Wales Press, 2024.