Andrew Mangham is a literary critic and lecturer at the University of Reading

University of Reading

The University of Reading is a university in the English town of Reading, Berkshire. The University was established in 1892 as University College, Reading and received its Royal Charter in 1926. It is based on several campuses in, and around, the town of Reading.The University has a long tradition...

, UK. 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

Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled "A Gothic Story"...

. Mangham was born in Thurnscoe

Thurnscoe

Thurnscoe is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The village is approximately half way between Barnsley and Doncaster, but sufficiently far enough from both to be out of their urban sprawl...

, a coal-mining village near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and got his Bachelors Degree from the University of Huddersfield

University of Huddersfield

The University of Huddersfield is a university located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.- History :The University traces its roots back to a Science and Mechanic Institute founded in 1825...

. He gained distinction in his Masters Degree in Victorian Literature from the University of Leeds

University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...

, and moved to the University of Sheffield

University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield is a research university based in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original 'red brick' universities and is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities...

 to study for a PhD with Sally Shuttleworth

Sally Shuttleworth

Sally Shuttleworth is Head of the Humanities Division at Oxford. She was educated at York, Cambridge and Harvard, before teaching English at Princeton, Leeds and Sheffield. She has appeared on Woman's Hour. -References:...

. The subject of his PhD thesis became the basis of his first book Violent Women and Sensation Fiction, which was published in 2007.

Books

• Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine and Victorian Popular Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
• Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. Editor.
• The Female Body in Medicine and Literature, Liverpool University Press, 2011. Editor.
• The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. Editor.
• The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. Editor.
• 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).