Long Eighteenth Century

The Long Eighteenth Century Group is extremely vibrant and successful, its members having recently won several funding awards from the AHRC and Leverhulme Trust.

The group has a diverse range of interests. We are prominent in the field of medical humanities through Allan Ingram, Clark Lawlor, Leigh Wetherall-Dickson and Anita O'Connell, whose individual and collective work addresses depression and fashionable diseases of the long-eighteenth century. Claudine van Hensbergen, Richard Terry and Helen Williams work on poetry, prose and drama in the early to mid-eighteenth century, with a shared interest in experimental fiction, book history and the developing literary marketplace. The group's expertise in Romanticism includes Clare Elliott who works on transatlantic Romanticism; Pete Newbon who studies Romantic childhood and immaturity; Leigh Wetherall-Dickson who engages with confessional writing; Anita O'Connell who works on dream visions in Romantic poetry, and David Stewart who researches magazines and the culture of literary ephemerality.

Case Studies:

Before Depression: a literary perspective on mental health

Bringing 18th Century literature to a modern audience

The below video shows how Northumbria recently introduced its 18-century research to the public as part of the national Being Human festival.

18th Century Legacies: The Past in our Present. from Northumbria University on Vimeo.