Bridgerton and Philosophy: Dukes, Debutantes, and Deep Questions

Publisher
Wiley
Location
Hoboken, New Jersey
Publication year
2026
Comment

[LV - I've checked with the editor about the contents and then made separate entries for the two articles which exclusively address the novels (see below, in the "Works in this Collection" section). Other articles may focus solely on the TV series, or on a mix of the TV series and novels. However, Jessica's own article discusses the HEA as a concept, and since that's so central to the definition of the romance genre I've also added an entry for that article (and it's available freely online).]

Here's the full list of the contents:

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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