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Recent publications

Women and Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century, IV Volumes


The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts

  • Edited by Claire Wood and Juliet John (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)

Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress


The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 14

  • Edited by Gowan Dawson, Matthew Stanley and Matthew Wale (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) 

'The Child Surgical Patient in the Early Twentieth Century'  

  • By Claire Brock in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

'Surgery, Success, and the Role of the Patient in Cleft Palate Operations, c.1800-1930' 

  • By Claire Brock in Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, 113.1 (March 2022), 22-44

'Women in Surgery After the Great War' 

  • By Claire Brock in The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science since 1660, ed., Claire G. Jones, Alison E. Martin, and Alexis Wolf (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp.593-610

Literary and Cultural Criticism in the Long Nineteenth Century, 4 vols. 

  • Edited by Joanne Shattock, Joanne Wilkes, Valerie Sanders and Kate Newey (Routledge, 2021)

Victoriographies 10.3 Special Issue: Dickens, Death, and Afterlives 

  • Edited by Emily Bell and Claire Wood. Including a co-written introduction and an article on 'Dickens and the Art of Epitaph' (2020)


Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Constructing Scientific Communities

  • Edited by Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Sally Shuttleworth and Jonathan R. Topham (University of Chicago Press, 2020)

Writing Lives Together: Romantic and Victorian auto/biography


Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain

  • Edited by Joanne Shattock (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
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British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918

  • By Claire Brock (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
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Show Me The Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

  • By Gowan Dawson (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
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The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume I

  • Edited by Gowan Dawson and Geoffrey Cantor (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
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Spirits of Community: English Senses of Belonging and Loss, 1750-1900

  • By Keith Snell (Bloomsbury, 2016)
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Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, 25 vols

  • Edited by Joanne Shattock and Elisabeth Jay (Pickering & Chatto/Routledge, 2011-16)
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Dickens and the Business of Death

  • By Claire Wood (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
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Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity

  • Edited by Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
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The Domestication of Genius: Biography and the Romantic Poet

  • By Julian North (Oxford University Press, 2009)
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1830-1914

  • By Joanne Shattock (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
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Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth: Reading Friendship in the 1790s


Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability

  • By Gowan Dawson (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
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Parish and Belonging: Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700-1950

  • By Keith Snell (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
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