The Centre for Victorian Studies

Recent publications

Women and Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century, IV Volumes.


Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress.

  • By Gowan Dawson (forthcoming Yale University Press, 2024)

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 14.

  • Edited by Gowan Dawson, Matthew Stanley and Matthew Wale (forthcoming University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) 

'The Child Surgical Patient in the Early Twentieth Century'  

  • By Claire Brock in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (forthcoming)

'Surgery, Success, and the Role of the Patient in Cleft Palate Operations, c.1800-1930' 

  • By Claire Brock in Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, 113.1 (March 2022), 22-44.

'Women in Surgery After the Great War' 

  • By Claire Brock in The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science since 1660, ed., Claire G. Jones, Alison E. Martin, and Alexis Wolf (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp.593-610.

Literary and Cultural Criticism in the Long Nineteenth Century, 4 vols. 

  • Edited by Joanne Shattock, Joanne Wilkes, Valerie Sanders and Kate Newey. (Routeledge, 2021)

Victoriographies 10.3 Special Issue: Dickens, Death, and Afterlives 

  • Edited by Emily Bell and Claire Wood. Including a co-written introduction and an article on 'Dickens and the Art of Epitaph'. (2020)


Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Constructing Scientific Communities.

  • Edited by Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Sally Shuttleworth and Jonathan R. Topham (University of Chicago Press, 2020)

image of the books front coverWriting Lives Together: Romantic and Victorian auto/biography


image of the books front coverJournalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain


image of the books front coverBritish Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918


image of the books front coverShow Me The Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America


image of the books front coverThe Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume I


image of the books front coverSpirits of Community: English Senses of Belonging and Loss, 1750-1900


image of the books front coverSelected Works of Margaret Oliphant, 25 vols.


image of the books front coverDickens and the Business of Death


image of the books front coverVictorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity


image of the books front coverThe Domestication of Genius: Biography and the Romantic Poet


image of the books front coverThe Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1830-1914


image of the books front coverCharles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth: Reading Friendship in the 1790s


image of the books front coverDarwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability


image of the books front coverParish and Belonging: Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700-1950

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