‘“White and black in him have part”: Charles Lamb’s “The Young Catechist”, Visual Culture and Abolitionism’

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Abstract

This article presents new research arising from editing Lamb’s poem ‘The Young Catechist’ (1827), written to accompany Henry Mayer’s painting of a black man and white girl, now on display at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. Through reproduction in several media and dissemination in diverse print contexts, the poem and painting became part of ideologically fraught public discourses around abolition and race relations in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)73-95
Number of pages23
JournalThe Charles Lamb Bulletin
Issue numbern.s. 177
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2023

Keywords

  • Charles Lamb
  • Abolitionism
  • painting
  • Bristol
  • nineteenth century
  • Romantic periodicals

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