{"id":206609,"date":"2019-05-14T12:53:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T16:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=206609"},"modified":"2019-05-14T12:53:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T16:53:03","slug":"patricia-matthew-delivers-spring-2019-gipson-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2019\/05\/14\/patricia-matthew-delivers-spring-2019-gipson-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Matthew Delivers Spring 2019 Gipson Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Matthew, professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/\">English Department<\/a>, delivered the Spring 2019 Gipson Lecture at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2019\/05\/Gipson-Lecture.png\">\u201c\u2019I have no master:\u2019 Marriage and\/as The Transatlantic Slave Trade\u201d<\/a> considered the rhetoric of legal and social contracts in\u00a0<em>Mansfield Park<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Woman of Colour, A Tale<\/em>, and the 2015 historical drama \u201cBelle.\u201d The Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies funds research projects, organizes symposia, and hosts an annual lecture. Based on her readings of the 1753 Hardwick Marriage Act and the 1772 Somerset v Stewart decision on the status of enslaved Africans in Britain, the talk was drawn from Prof. Matthew&#8217;s book-in-progress on sugar, race, and the history of the novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Matthew, professor in the English Department, delivered the Spring 2019 Gipson Lecture at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. \u201c\u2019I have no master:\u2019 Marriage and\/as The Transatlantic Slave Trade\u201d considered the rhetoric of legal and social contracts in\u00a0Mansfield Park,\u00a0The Woman of Colour, A Tale, and the 2015 historical drama \u201cBelle.\u201d The Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":206610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20_chss-news","category-57_english-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206612,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206609\/revisions\/206612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}