Long Nineteenth Century
English Literature research theme
We research across the full range of the long nineteenth century, from the Romantic period to the fin de siècle.
Our work follows three major themes: authorship, visual arts, and literature and science.
On authorship, we consider writers' perception of their role. We lead major new editorial projects on Charles Lamb, George Meredith, Oscar Wilde and Henry James, and investigate literary networks and correspondence across the nineteenth century.
Our research in literature and the visual arts centres on the Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic movements, looking at their poetry and art criticism alongside paintings, sculpture and design.
We explore the relationship between literature and science in forms such as poetry and science fiction, investigating cultural and scientific institutions from museums to the periodical press, and theories including Darwinian and non-Darwinian understandings of evolution.
Researchers
- Dr Louise Curran - Material forms and textual meanings
- Dr Eleanor Dobson - ancient Egypt in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Dr John Fagg - American art and literature
- Dr Richard Fallon - Interactions and overlaps between literature and science
- Dr Jessica Fay - Aesthetics, landscape poetry, and narrative form
- Professor Alexandra Harris - Landscape, locality and the presence of the past
- Dr Oliver Herford - British and American literature of the long nineteenth century, with a special focus on the late writings of Henry James
- Dr Andrew Hodgson - Voice, influence, and achievement in English poetry and in particular the poetry of the Romantic period
- Professor John Holmes - Scientific ideas and cultural forms in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including poetry, architecture and the visual arts
- Professor Tom Lockwood - Early modern and into the Romantic periods
- Professor Deborah Longworth - Nineteenth and twentieth century women writers
- Dr Rebecca N Mitchell - Victorian literature and culture
- Dr Sebastian Mitchell - Romantic literature and culture, and utopian writing
- Dr Daniel Moore - Nineteenth and twentieth century literature and visual culture
- Dr Jimmy Packham - American Gothic literature and maritime writing
- Dr Fariha Shaikh - the British Empire and Victorian Literature, particularly migration, settler colonialism, memory and textual and material culture
- Dr Emilie Taylor-Pirie - literature and science studies, medical humanities, and the cultural history of medicine
- Dr Emily Vincent - disease and the Gothic in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature
- Dr Matthew Ward - British Romanticism