Gothic History, Tradition and Heritage

One of our research strengths is in English literature, especially the history of the Gothic literary aesthetic from the early modern period, through the eighteenth century to the present day.

Prof Dale Townshend, ‘Cancelling Matthew Gregory Lewis; or, Gothic and the Question of Slavery’

Dr Matt Foley, ‘Monstrous and Ventriloquial Voices: Robert Bloch and the Returns of Poe’

Dr Emma Liggins, ‘Women’s Ghost Stories, 1910s to 1930s: The Haunted Metropolis’

Related Publications

Aldana Reyes, X. (2016) Horror: A Literary History. London: British Library Publishing.

Dickinson, R. (2019) Ruskin’s Manchester: ‘Devil’s Darkness’ to Beacon City. [Exhibition] MMU Special Collections, 24/6/2019 – 23/8/2019.

Dickinson, R. (2019) ‘Ruskin and a Generation Worth Remembering.’ Journal of Victorian Culture, 24(3) pp. 303-310.

Foley, M. (2023) Gothic Voices: The Vococentric Soundworld of Gothic Writing. Cambridge University Press.

Lawrenson, S., Foley, M. (2024) Melmoth’s Global Afterlives. Gothic Studies.

Lawrenson, S. (2024) Maria Edgeworth and the Gothic. Cambridge University Press.

Liggins, E. (2022) ‘“Meddling with Sorcery”: Hypnotism, the Occult and the Return of Forsaken Women in the 1890s Ghost Stories of Lettice Galbraith.’ Women’s Writing, 29(2) pp. 177-195.

Liggins, E. (2020) The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850-1945. Palgrave Macmillan.

Ní Fhlainn, S. (2022) TWENTIETH CENTURY GOTHIC. EUP.

Townshend, D. (2024) Matthew Gregory Lewis The Gothic and Romantic Literary Culture. University of Wales Press.

Townshend, D. (2019) Gothic Antiquity History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840. Oxford University Press.

Wester, M., Aldana Reyes, X. (2019) Twenty-First-Century Gothic. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.