Tutor information
Andrew Mangham
Andrew Mangham is Professor of English Literature at the University of Reading. He is the author of We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us (2023), The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine and Political Economy (2020), Dickens’s Forensic Realism: Truth, Bodies, Evidence (2017) and Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (2007). He is editor and co-editor of several volumes on the intersections between medicine and literature in the nineteenth century.
Courses
Illness loomed large in the Victorian period, and in this day school leading scholars on the topic will introduce you to important ways in which it was a central preoccupation of Victorian literature.