Deirdre Coleman

Anti-Slavery, African colonization, and the natural history of ballooning

D Coleman

Journal article  |  2019  |  Romanticism

Henry Smeathman (1742-86) was a self-taught naturalist who collected naturalia in West Africa and the West Indies for wealthy Lond..

Antislavery Satire before Abolitionism: Two New Images

Deirdre Coleman

Journal article  |  2018  |  The Wordsworth Circle

British and Australian portraits at the National Gallery of Victoria

A Inglis, Deirdre Coleman, Vivian Gaston

Journal article  |  2018  |  Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria

Henry Smeathman, the Flycatcher: Natural History, Slavery, and Empire in the late Eighteenth Century

D Coleman

Book  |  2018

In this book, which draws on a rich and little-known archive of journals and letters, Coleman retraces Smeathman's life as he shut..

Eighteenth-century West African insects in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney

Deirdre Coleman, Robert Blackburn

Journal article  |  2017  |  Archives of Natural History

Alfred Deakin's 'Austral-Asia' and the Making of 'History for the Future'

Deirdre Coleman, Sashi Nair

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of the Australasian Languages and Literature Association

Book Review: An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 1750–1850

D Coleman

Journal article  |  2016  |  European Romantic Review

Toothsome Termites and Grilled Grasshoppers: A cultural history of invertebrate gastronomy

D COLEMAN

Journal article  |  2016  |  Animal Studies Journal

This article examines the recent turn to entomophagy (insect eating) as a new source of nutrition in a world confronted by increas..

Insect Itineraries: From Sierra Leone, West Africa to Sydney, New South Wales

D COLEMAN

Journal article  |  2016  |  Humanities Australia

The Cultural Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2015

This volume argues for the enduring significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture.

British Women’s Writings in a Global Context

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2015

In her essay "On Ghosts" (1824) Mary Shelley mourned the loss of an older, antediluvian earth across which the "eagle-winged" imag..

Imperial Commerce, Gender and Slavery

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2015

This chapter explores the twinned emergence in the British novel of a critique of plantation slavery and commercial imperialism wi..

Book Review: Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, Cavendish, Swift

Deirdre Coleman

Journal article  |  2014  |  Isis

'Voyage of conception': John Keats and India

D Coleman

Book Chapter  |  2014  |  Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century

Keats, India, and the Vale of Soul-Making

D Coleman

Conference Proceedings  |  2013  |  Grasmere, 2013: Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference

The 'dark tide of time': Coleridge and William Hodges' India

D Coleman

Book Chapter  |  2013

Menageries and Museums: John Simons' The Tiger that Swallowed the Boy (2012) and the Lives and Afterlives of Historical Animals

D Coleman

Journal article  |  2013  |  Animal Studies Journal

A few years ago two very old taxidermied Colobus monkeys turned up in the basement of Vienna’s Natural History Museum. They were s..

Coda: From the posthumous to the posthuman

D Coleman

Book Chapter  |  2011

'Adapted to Her Meridian': The Novel, The Woman Reader, and the French Revolution

D Coleman

Book Chapter  |  2011

Introduction

D Coleman, undefined Fraser

Book Chapter  |  2011

Introduction

Deirdre Coleman, Hilary Fraser

Book Chapter  |  2011

Which of us has not stood, captivated, before one of the ‘human statues’ that are now such a feature of tourist sites the world ov..

Lydia Wevers: Reading on the Farm

D Coleman

Journal article  |  2011  |  Australian Book Review

Women Writers and Abolition

Deirdre Coleman

Book Chapter  |  2010

The years 1787–88 mark the high tide of popular abolitionism. What had begun as a small-scale protest, with Quakers submitting the..

The "Dog-Man": Race, Sex, Species, and Lineage in Coetzee's Disgrace

Deirdre Coleman

Journal article  |  2009  |  Twentieth-Century Literature

Book Review: Early Romanticism and Religious Dissent

Deirdre Coleman

Journal article  |  2009  |  Eighteenth Century Fiction

Abolitionist debates in British literature and polemic, 1787-1820

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2009

Imagining Sameness and Difference: Domestic and Colonial Sisters in Mansfield Park

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2009

The "Dog-Man": Race, Sex, Species and Lineage in Coetzee's "Disgrace"

D COLEMAN

Journal article  |  2009  |  Twentieth Century Literature

Afterword: Rough crossings to new beginnings

D COLEMAN

Journal article  |  2008  |  Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History

Introduction: Minds, Bodies, Machines

D COLEMAN, Hilary Fraser

Journal article  |  2008  |  19

This issue of 19 brings together a selection of essays from an interdisciplinary conference on 'Minds, Bodies, Machines' convened ..

Book Review: Companion to women's historical writing, edited by Mary Spongberg, Barbara Caine, and Ann Curthoys

Dierdre Coleman

Journal article  |  2007  |  Australian Feminist Studies

Mary Birkett

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2007

Henry Smeathman and the Natural Economy of Slavery

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2007  |  Essays and Studies -London-

'Aetherial Journies, Submarine Exploits': The Debatable Worlds of Natural History in the Late Eighteenth Century

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2007

The eye-catching conjunction of ‘Aetherial journies, submarine exploits’ occurs in William Cowper’s ‘The Winter Evening’, where th..

Entertaining Entomology: Insects and Insect Performers in the Eighteenth Century

D Coleman

Journal article  |  2006  |  Eighteenth-Century Life

Introduction

D Coleman

Book Chapter  |  2006

Post-colonialism

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2005

Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery

D COLEMAN

Book  |  2005

Elizabeth Thomas

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2004

Henry Smeathman, the Fly-Catching Abolitionist

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2004

Henrietta Mosse

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2004

Mary Ann Parker

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2004

Inscrutable History or Incurable Romanticism: Inga Clendinnen's Dancing with Strangers

D COLEMAN

Journal article  |  2004  |  HEAT

Janet Schaw and the Complexions of Empire

D COLEMAN

Journal article  |  2003  |  Eighteenth-Century Studies

Bulama and Sierra Leone: Utopian islands and visionary interiors

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2003

The Journalist

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2002

Robert Dixon, Prosthetic Gods: Travel, Representation and Colonial Governance

Deirdre Coleman

Journal article  |  2002  |  Southerly: a review of Australian literature

Firebrands, Letters and Flowers: Mrs Barbauld and the Priestleys

D COLEMAN

Book Chapter  |  2002

Poetic destinies and destinations

Deirdre Coleman

Journal article  |  2000  |  Sydney Studies in English

Claire Clairmont and Mary Shelley: identification and rivalry within the “tribe of the Otaheite philosopher’s”

D Coleman

Journal article  |  1999  |  Women's Writing

The relationship between Mary Shelley and Claire Clairmont is usually looked at and analysed from Mary's point of view. This artic..

Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women's Travel Narratives of the 1790s

Deirdre Coleman

Book  |  1999

These narratives explore the fascinating connections between Britain's systems of transportation and resettlement, convictism and ..

The Unitarian Rationalist and the ‘Winged Spider’: Anna Letitia Barbauld and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Deirdre Coleman

Book Chapter  |  1996

Sierra Leone, Slavery, and Sexual Politics: Anna Maria Falconbridge and the “swarthy daughter” of late 18th century abolitionism

D Coleman

Journal article  |  1995  |  Women's Writing

Conspicuous Consumption: White Abolitionism and English Women's Protest Writing in the 1790s

D COLEMAN

Journal article  |  1994  |  ELH

Keats, Women, and the Demon Poesy

Deirdre Coleman

Journal article  |  1991  |  Sydney Studies in English

When Keats abruptly claimed, in one ofhis letters, that 'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth-whether it existed be..

Coleridge and The Friend (1809-1810)

Deirdre Coleman

Book  |  1988

In the past, critics of Coleridge's journal, The Friend, have referred to the much revised work of 1818. This is the first study o..

A Horrid Tale in "The Friend"

Deirdre Coleman

Journal article  |  1981  |  The Wordsworth Circle