Professor Andrew Mangham

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Professor
- Director, Centre for Health Humanities: www.reading.ac.uk/healthhums
Areas of interest
My primary research area is the intersection between literature and medicine. I began my research career by looking at the links between Victorian conceptions of female psychopathology, the insanity plea in criminal courts, and sensation fiction. Since then I've published monographs on Charles Dickens and forensic medicine and the physiology of starvation and the Victorian social problem novel. I am currently at work on a book about mutations and monstrosities in nineteenth-century science and literature. My work has concentrated on the intellectual and methodological elements that literature and medicine have shared in history. I'm also interested in the gothic, realism, ideas of sexuality and health, real crime, and popular fiction. I always welcome new enquiries about PhD supervision.
I am founder and director of the Centre for Health Humanities, an interdisciplinary group of researchers from across the University. We are interested in the ways the arts and humanities intersect with the questions asked by the sciences of health and wellbeing. As a group, we undertake regular research and public-engagement activities around three major themes: life transition; minds, bodies and sickness; and monsters and the monstrous. Through these interlinking and interdisciplinary areas, we explore some of the most important subjects in health enquiry today, from the phenomenology of sickness, the effects and perceptions of ageing, to cultural understandings of physiological variation. For more information, please follow the link above and/or follow us on Twitter @healthhums
Within the Department of English Literature, I teach modules on literature and medicine, Dickens, the gothic, and Victorian literature.
Selected publications
Monographs
• We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us (MIT Press, 2023)
• The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine and Political Economy (OUP, 2020)
• Dickens's Forensic Realism: Truth, Bodies, Evidence (Ohio State UP, 2016)
• Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine and Victorian Popular Fiction (Palgrave, 2007)
Edited Collections
• (with Clark Lawlor) Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (CUP, 2021)
• (with Clark Lawlor) Literature and Medicine in the Eighteenth Century (CUP, 2021)
• (with Daniel Lea), The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (Liverpool UP, 2016)
• The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (CUP, 2013)
• (with Greta Depledge), The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (Liverpool UP, 2011)
• Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007)
Publications
- Mangham, A. (2021) 'The ghosts of individual peculiarities': murder and interpretation in Dickens. In: Ferguson, R. , Littlefield, M. , Purdon, J. , (eds.) The Art of Identification: Forensics, Surveillance, Identity. Penn State University Press , University Park, Pennsylvania. ISBN: 9780271090573
- Lawlor, C. and Mangham, A. , eds. (2021) Literature and Medicine in the Eighteenth Century. , 1. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp 280. ISBN: 9781108420860
- Lawlor, C. and Mangham, A. (2021) Literature and medicine the nineteenth century. , 2. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge, UK. ISBN: 9781108420747
- Mangham, A. (2020) The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine and Political Economy. Oxford University Press , Oxford, UK. ISBN: 9780198850038
- Mangham, A. and Lea, D. , eds. (2018) The Male Body in Medicine and Literature. Liverpool University Press pp 264. ISBN: 9781786940520
- Mangham, A. (2017) Medical research. In: Rushton, S. and Holmes, J. , (eds.) The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science. Routledge , London, UK. ISBN: 9781315613338 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315613338
- Mangham, A. (2017) Dickens’s Forensic Realism: Truth, Bodies, Evidence. Ohio State University Press pp 300. ISBN: 9780814213247
- Mangham, A. (2017) Dickens, Hogarth and artistic perception: the case of Nicholas Nickleby. Dickens Studies Annual , 48 pp. 59-78. ISSN: 0084-9812
- Mangham, A. (2015) Wood, Ellen. The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118405376.wbevl338
- Mangham, A. (2015) Starving by numbers: William Farr, medical statistics and the social aesthetics of hunger. English Literature , 2 (2). pp. 203-217. ISSN: 2420-823X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.14277/2420-823X/EL-2-2-15-2
- Mangham, A. (2015) Grave sensitivities: medicine and feeling in the early journalism of Dickens. In: Christensen, A. , Marroni, F. , Paroissien, D. , (eds.) Dialogic Dickens: Invention and Transformation. Solfanelli , Chieti. pp. 63-83. ISBN: 9788874979349
- Mangham, A. (2013) "Drink it up dear, it will do you good": crime, toxicology and the trail of the serpent. New perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon. DQR Studies in Literature Rodopi (50). , Amsterdam. pp. 95-112. ISBN: 9789042035799
- Mangham, A. (2013) The Cambridge companion to sensation fiction. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp 253. ISBN: 9780521157094
- Mangham, A. (2012) Charles Dickens and the anatomy of murder. Transactions of the Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society , 106 pp. 12-14. ISSN: 0141-3511
- Mangham, A. (2012) ‘God’s Truth’: Kant, Mill and moral epistemology in Oliver Twist. Literature Compass , 9 (11). pp. 733-742. ISSN: 1741-4113 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12024
- Mangham, A. (2012) Science and medicine. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory , 20 (1). pp. 320-333. ISSN: 1471-681X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbs015
- Mangham, A. (2011) Ellen Wood (Mrs Henry Wood). Oxford Bibliographies Online | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199799558-0081
- Mangham, A. (2011) Wilkie Collins. Oxford Bibliographies Online | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199799558-0017
- Mangham, A. (2011) Medicine. Oxford Bibliographies Online | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199799558-0080
- Mangham, A. (2011) Anatomical sketches by Boz. The Dickensian , 107 (483). pp. 43-57. ISSN: 0012-2440
- Mangham, A. (2011) Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood. In: Gilbert, P. , (eds.) A Companion to Sensation Fiction. Blackwell pp. 408-421. ISBN: 9781405195584
- Mangham, A. , eds. (2011) The poetry of Menotti Lerro. Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 9781443828444
- Mangham, A. and Depledge, G. , eds. (2011) The female body in medicine and literature. Liverpool University Press pp 231. ISBN: 9781846314728
- Mangham, A. (2010) Buried alive: the gothic awakening of taphephobia. Journal of Literature and Science , 3 (1). pp. 10-22. ISSN: 1754-646X
- Mangham, A. (2010) Pickwick's interpolated tales and the examination of suicide: the science of an ending. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century , 10 ISSN: 1755-1560
- Mangham, A. (2010) Life after death: apoplexy, medical ethics and the female undead. In: Kontou, T. , (eds.) Women and the Victorian Occult. Taylor & Francis , London. pp. 15-31. ISBN: 9780415613262
- Mangham, A. (2010) Wilkie Collins (1824–1889). In: Rzepka, C. and Horsley, L. , (eds.) A companion to crime fiction. Wiley-Blackwell , Oxford, UK. pp. 381-389. ISBN: 9781405167659
- Mangham, A. (2009) Armadale and the criminal abortionists. In: Costantini, M. , (eds.) Armadale: Wilkie Collins and the dark threads of life. Aracne , Rome. pp. 177-195. ISBN: 9788854826137
- Mangham, A. , eds. (2009) Wilkie Collins: interdisciplinary essays. 2nd edition. Cambridge Scholars Publishing , Newcastle. pp 284. ISBN: 9781443805100
- Mangham, A. (2008) Life after death: apoplexy, medical ethics and the female undead. Women's Writing , 15 (3). pp. 282-299. ISSN: 1747-5848 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09699080802444751
- Mangham, A. , eds. (2007) Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays. Cambridge Scholars Publishing , Newcastle. pp 284.
- Mangham, A. and Depledge, G. (2007) Gynecological controversy and Victorian fiction. In: Caleb, A. , (eds.) (Re)creating science in nineteenth-century Britain. Cambridge Scholars Publishing , Newcastle. pp. 146-167. ISBN: 9781847182203
- Mangham, A. (2007) How do I look? Dysmorphophobia and obsession at the fin de siècle. In: Stiles, A. , (eds.) Neurology and literature, 1860-1920. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Palgrave , Basingstoke. ISBN: 9780230520943
- Mangham, A. (2007) Violent women and sensation fiction: crime, medicine and Victorian popular culture. Palgrave , Basingstoke. pp 264. ISBN: 9780230545212
- Mangham, A. (2006) The detective fiction of female adolescent violence. Clues: a journal of detection , 25 (1). pp. 70-80. ISSN: 1940-3046 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3200/CLUS.25.1.70-80
- Mangham, A. (2006) “What could I do?”: nineteenth-century psychology and the horrors of masculinity in 'The woman in white'. In: Harrison, K. and Fantina, R. , (eds.) Victorian sensations: essays on a scandalous genre. Ohio State University Press , Columbus, USA. pp. 115-125. ISBN: 9780814210314