Bridgerton and Philosophy: Dukes, Debutantes, and Deep Questions

Publisher
Wiley
Location
Hoboken, New Jersey
Publication year
2026
Comment

[LV - This hadn't been published at the time this entry was created so I don't know which essays deal with the books and which with the TV version. I could see via Google Books excerpts that the first two essays quote from the books but the third seemed more focused on the TV version. ]

Here's a list of the essays:

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Sharon Kaye - Feminist Sex?: It's in His Kiss

Laura Katherin Jimenez-Cuadros and Pablo Rivas-Robledo - Bridgerton and the Philosophy of Good Sex

Cheryl Frazier and Jeremy Fried - Out of the Shadows?: Examining Assumptions About Love and Fatness in Bridgerton

Mary Bernard and Susan Peppers-Bates - Authenticity Through Solidarity: A Beauvoirian Existentialist Analysis of Lady Danbury, Simon Basset, and Penelope Featherington

Jessica Miller - "I Shall Be Very Happy, Indeed": The Meanings of Happiness in Bridgerton

Eric Murphy Selinger - Bee-ing and Time: Mortality, Ontology, and Love in Julia Quinn's The Viscount Who Loved Me

Katherine Byrne - Bridgerton and the Environment

William Rodriguez - A Bridgerton's Defense of Gossip

Lisa Cassidy - Is Lady Whistledown Full of B.S.?: An Impertinent Investigation

Catherine M. Robb - "All of Us Talk": Bridgerton and the Value of Gossip

Clara Nisley and Thomas Nisley - "The Most Curious of News": Testimony, Gossip, and the Search for Knowledge

Sarah E. Worth and Sondra Bacharach - Ladies Reading and Writing: Penelope, Eloise, and the Friendship of Women

Katelyn Antilla and Lel Jones - The Bane of My Forgiveness: On Excuses, Apologies, and Repentance

SuddhaSatwa GuhaRoy - Trust Lessons from Bridgerton: Shades of Vulnerability and Betrayal

Zachary Isrow - Breaking the Bonds of Crystallization: The Search for Perfection and Love in Bridgerton

Guillaume Lequien - Is True Love Really Friendship?

Janelle Pötzsch - Queen Charlotte: Wedlock(-ed)

Rebecca Chapman - "Has Anyone Told You That Your Mother is Rather Terrifying?": Mothers and Their Children in Bridgerton

Jade Metzger-Riftkin and Tolonda Henderson - "I Have Never Been a Man That Much Enjoyed Flirting, or Chatting, or, Indeed, Talking at All": The Duke of Hastings's Stutter and the Troubles with Defining Disability

Gah-Kai Leung - Queerbaiting the Fans: What (If Anything) Is Wrong with Queerbaiting in Bridgerton?

Edwardo Pérez - Understanding the Great Experiment in Netflix's Bridgerton and Queen Charlotte

Tom Ue - Of Brawn and Brow: Boxing and Honor in Bridgerton