Matthew Sangster

Biographic Data

ID6617868
NAMEMatthew Sangster
GIVEN NAMESMatthew
FAMILY NAMESangster
SIGNATURESANGSTER M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Glasgow
ORCID0000-0001-6452-4813
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Books and Borrowing, 1730–1830

    Brian C Aitken, Brian Aitken et al.ARTICLEVictorians Institute Journal2025

    In this article, the authors introduce the research project “Books and Borrowing, 1750–1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers” (https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/), with a particular emphasis on how the project moved from conception to execution. The article discusses the research project’s aims and research questions, provides an overview of the main features of the project’s online resource, discusses the development of the resource in d…

  • Books and borrowing

    Open AccessMaxine Branagh-Miscampbell, Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman et al.ARTICLELibrary & Information History2024

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime

    Open AccessPatrick Glauthier, Dawn Hollis et al.BOOKCambridge Companion to the…2023

    This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion consid…

  • Remediating The 1820s

    Jon Mee, Matthew SangsterEDITORBOOKRemediating The 1820s2023

  • Remediating the 1820s

    Matthew Sangster, Jon MeeBOOKRemediating The 1820s2023

  • An Introduction to Fantasy

    Open AccessMatthew SangsterBOOKIntroduction to Fantasy2023

    Providing an engaging and accessible introduction to the Fantasy genre in literature, media and culture, this incisive volume explores why Fantasy matters in the context of its unique affordances, its disparate pasts and its extraordinary current flourishing. It pays especial attention to Fantasy's engagements with histories and traditions, its manifestations across media and its dynamic communities. Matthew Sangster covers works ancient and mode…

  • Keyword

    Matthew SangsterCHAPTERRemediating The 1820s2022

    This keyword lays out the evidence for the vast expansion of media provision during the 1820s, discussing technologies such as the steam-driven press, the Fourdrinier papermaking machine and stereotyping while considering their effects on the size, make-up and qualities of the reading public. It argues that the burgeoning of new media forms and formats made the 1820s a decade in which print-cultural mediation became both ubiquitous and unavoidabl…

  • Coherence and Inclusion in the Life Writing of Romantic-period London

    Matthew SangsterARTICLELife Writing2017References: 2

    This article explores the ways in which London lives were written together during the Romantic period, considering representations across different genres and media including: poetry by William Wordsworth, Richard Horwood’s house-by-house Plan of the city (1792–9), Fores’s New Guide for Foreigners ([?1789]), the 1788 volume of Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies, Richard Phillips’ Modern London (1804) and Pierce Egan’s Life in London (1820–1). …

  • Transformation and Specialization in London and its Topography

    Matthew SangsterARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2017

    This article puts John Tallis’s London Street Views (1838–40) into conversation with some of the major topographical projects that preceded them. By examining how London was represented in works including Richard Horwood’s PLAN of the Cities of LONDON and WESTMINSTER the Borough of SOUTHWARK, and PARTS adjoining Shewing every HOUSE (1792–9), Richard Phillips’s Modern London (1804) and Rudolph Ackermann’s Microcosm of London (1808–10), it consider…