Research group: The Long Nineteenth-Century Network
Looking back at nineteenth-century literature, culture and art to help us understand our present and future in Manchester and beyond.
About our research
Manchester in the nineteenth century
Research themes
Our research themes
Urbanisation and globalisation
Industrial Manchester, Victorian crime, detection and criminal underworlds, Elizabeth Gaskell, Manchester and diasporic communities, Orientalism, American slavery, mobilities and horizons, shopping, the suffrage movement, sport and leisure, heritage.
Art and material culture
Arts and crafts, John Ruskin, textiles, magazines, print culture, global nineteenth-century periodicals, fashion, greetings cards, country houses in the North West.
Gothic literature and architecture
Supernatural fiction, vampires, the novelist Ann Radcliffe, the poet Matthew Lewis, haunted houses, European Gothic, historical fiction.
Selected projects
Contact information
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