The Long C19

We are world-leading specialists in Romantic and Victorian literature, producing groundbreaking research on the Lake District poets, place/space, digital literary mapping, gaming, manuscripts, Ruskin, revolution, Gothic, science and medicine, text/image relations, and religion.

We are:

Simon Bainbridge

Sally Bushell

Sharon Ruston

Keith Hanley

Mark Knight

Jo Carruthers

Andrew Tate

Kamilla Elliott

Catherine Spooner

Philip Dickinson

John Schad

Michael Greaney

Recent books:

  • Bainbridge, Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836 (Oxford University Press, 2020)
  • Bushell and Hutcheon, New Approaches for Digital Literary Mapping (Cambridge Elements Series, forthcoming 2024)
  • Sharon Ruston, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Bond and Grace, 2023)
  • Ruston, The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein (Bodleian Library Press, 2021)
  • Greaney, The A to Z of Jane Austen (Bloomsbury, 2022)
  • Carruthers et al, Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

Links to

-Chronotopic Cartographies

-Litcraft

-Davy Notebooks

-Addressing the Histories and Legacies of Colonialism in Literary House Museums

-Wordsworth Walks