Andrew Mangham

Andrew Mangham (born 1979) is a literary critic and lecturer at the University of Reading, UK.^[1] He is best known for his work on the sensation novel, having published three books and numerous articles on the genre, but he has also published critical work on Dickens and the Gothic. Mangham was born in Thurnscoe, a coal-mining village near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and got his bachelor's degree from the University of Huddersfield. He gained distinction in his master's degree in Victorian Literature from the University of Leeds, and moved to the University of Sheffield to study for a PhD with Sally Shuttleworth. The subject of his PhD thesis became the basis of his first book Violent Women and Sensation Fiction,^[2] which was published in 2007.

Selected bibliography

Books

• Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine and Victorian Popular Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.^[2]
• Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. Editor.^[3]
• The Female Body in Medicine and Literature, Liverpool University Press, 2011. Editor.^[4]
• The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. Editor.^[5]
• The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction, Cambridge University Press, Editor.^[6]
• Dickens's Anatomy: Medical Jurisprudence, Realist Logic and the Boz Years, In progress.

Journal articles

• 'Hysterical Fictions: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Medical Constructions of Hysteria and the Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon', Wilkie Collins Society Journal, 6 (November 2003).
• '"Murdered at the Breast": Maternal Violence and the Self-Made Man in Popular Victorian Culture', Critical Survey, 16:1 (2004).
• 'The Detective Fiction of Female Adolescent Violence', Clues: A Journal of Detection, 24 (2006).
• 'Apoplexy, Medical Ethics and the Female Undead', in Women's Writing, 15:3 (Spring 2009).
• 'Pickwick's Interpolated Tales and the Examination of Suicide', in 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 10 (2010).
• 'Buried Alive: The Gothic Awakening of Taphephobia', in The Journal of Literature and Science, 3 (2010).
• 'Anatomical Sketches by Boz', in The Dickensian (forthcoming).

Book chapters

• '"What Could I Do?": Nineteenth-Century Psychology and the Horrors of Masculinity in The Woman in White', in Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre, ed. by Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina (Ohio State University Press, 2006).
• 'Mental States: Political and Psychological Conflict in Antonina', in Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays, ed. by Andrew Mangham (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).
• 'How Do I Look? Dysmorphophobia and Obsession at the Fin de Siècle', in Neurology and Literature at the Fin de Siècle, ed. by Anne Stiles (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
• With Greta Depledge, 'Gynaecological Controversy and Victorian Fiction', in (Re)creating Science in the Nineteenth-Century, ed. by Amanda Mordavsky Caleb (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).
• 'Armadale and the Criminal Abortionists', in Armadale: Wilkie Collins and the Dark Threads of Life, ed. by Mariaconcetta Costantini (Aracne, 2008).
• 'Wilkie Collins' in The Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction, ed. by Charles J. Rzepka and Lee Horsley (Blackwell, 2010).
• 'Mrs Henry (Ellen) Wood' in The Blackwell Companion to Sensation Fiction, ed. by Pamela K. Gilbert (Blackwell, forthcoming).
• '"Drink it up dear; it will do you good": Crime, Toxicology and The Trail of the Serpent' in New Perspectives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Radopi, forthcoming).

References

1. http://www.reading.ac.uk/english-language-and-literature/aboutus/Staff/a-s-mangham.aspx
2. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280188
3. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wilkie-Collins-Interdisciplinary-Andrew-Mangham/dp/1443805106
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-28. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-02-16.
6. http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/english-literature-1830-1900/cambridge-companion-sensation-fiction