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"""Key Concepts in Victorian Studies is a landmark reference work for any scholar working on the period. All the major issues and innovations are outlined, from Anarchism to Zoetrope. The excellent overview of parliamentary legislation provides an invaluable account of social and economic change. Scholarly and accessible, this is an essential guide to the period."" -Andrew Smith, University of Sheffield"

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William Hughes is Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau, where he leads teaching in Victorian studies and Gothic literature. He is the author of more than twenty books in the fields of Victorian studies, the Gothic and medical history, including The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Victorian Popular Imagination (Manchester University Press, 2022), Key Concepts in the Gothic (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and That Devil's Trick: Hypnotism and the British Popular Imagination (Manchester University Press, 2015). He has also co-edited a number of important essay collections, including, with Andrew Smith, Suicide and the Gothic (Manchester University Press, 2019) and with Ruth Heholt, Gothic Britain: Dark Places in the Margins and Provinces of the British Isles (University of Wales press, 2018).

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