Hannah Hudson, PhD

Research Interests

• Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature
• History of the Novel
• Romanticism
• Book & Publishing History
• The Gothic
• Women Writers
• Popular Fiction

Publications

Books

Magazines, Romanticism, and Imperial Knowledge (manuscript in progress)

Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era. (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023)

Winner of the Marilyn Gaull Book Award from the Wordsworth-Coleridge Society

Reviews: Studies in Romanticism, Studies in the Novel, Eighteenth-Century Life, the Wordsworth Circle, the TLS

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Botany Bay" in British Magazines, 1786–1791,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 54, no. 2 (Winter 2021), pp. 261-84. doi:10.1353/ecs.2021.0000.

“Imitation, Intertextuality, and The Minerva Press Novel,” Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840 23 (Summer 2020), pp. 149-167.

“Gothic Before Gothic: Minerva Press Reviews, Gender, and the Evolution of Genre,” in Women’s Authorship and the Early Gothic: Innovations and Legacies, ed. Kathleen Hudson, University of Wales Press, 2020, pp. 43-64.

“Sentiment and the Gothic: Failures of Emotion in the Novels of Mrs. Radcliffe and the Minerva Press,” in The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Albert J. Rivero. Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 155-172. 

“‘This Lady is Descended from a Good Family’: Women and Biography in British Magazines, 1770–1798” in Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s: The Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Jennie Batchelor and Manushag Powell. Edinburgh University Press, 2018, pp. 278-93.

“Byronic Advertising: Celebrity, Romantic Biography, and the London Magazine” in The European Romantic Review 27:6, 2016, pp. 747-767.

“Robert Bage’s Novel Merchandise: Commercialism, Gender, and Form in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction,” in The Eighteenth-Century Novel, Vol. 9. New York: AMS Press, 2012, pp. 171-192. 

Pedagogy

“Romantic Lives, Romantic Archives,” Romantic Circles: Pedagogies (February 2020).

Public Scholarship and Multimedia

“The Thing About Catherine and Isabella's Horrid Novels, with guest Dr. Hannah Doherty Hudson”. The Thing About Austen Podcast, episode 78. Hosted by Zan Cammack and Diane Neu. October 30, 2023.

“Five Questions: Hannah Doherty Hudson on Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era.” British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Blog, ed. Matthew Sangster. September 24, 2023.

Reviews

Review of The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History, by Jennie Batchelor (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Eighteenth-Century Studies 57.3 (2024), pp 402-404.

Review of Writing in Public: Literature and the Liberty of the Press in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by Trevor Ross(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). Eighteenth-Century Fiction 33.1 (2020), pp. 148-150.

Scholarly Editions and Introductions to Editions

Introduction to Count Roderic’s Castle (Minerva Press, 1794). Valancourt Books, 2017.

Edited Selections from Carlton-House Magazine, 1792 in Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, vol. 9, ed. Ann Hawkins. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013, pp. 169-92.

Edited Selections from The Universal Magazine and Review, 1790 in Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, vol. 5, ed. Ann Hawkins. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012, pp. 129-57.

Other Scholarship

“The English-Woman” (1808); “Celia in Search of a Husband” (1809); “Hours of Affluence and Days of Indigence” (1809); “The Alderman and the Peer” (1810); “The Englishman” (1812); “The English Exposé” (1814); “The Bachelor’s Journal” (1815); and “Genevieve; Or, the Orphan’s Visit.” In The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, ed. April London. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).