Professor Clark Lawlor

I research literary and artistic representations and their effects on the realities of medicine, and vice-versa. My core periods are the 'long eighteenth century' and Romantic periods, but I have written on cultural histories of disease, especially, consumption/tuberculosis, and melancholia and depression, from Classical times to the present day. I show how literary templates help to construct social percpetions and therefore lived experience of diseases. I have been involved in, or run, Leverhulme Trust  major research projects on depression, fashionable diseases, and medical writings. See the following:PI Writing Doctors: Representation and Medical Personality ca. 1660-1832 http://writingdoctors.info/  A Leverhulme Trust Major Project; PI Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660-1832 http://www.fashionablediseases.info/ A Leverhulme Trust Major Project; Co-Director  Before Depression: Representation and Culture of the English Malady, 1660-1800 (2006-9), £223,000 www.beforedepression.com. 

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• Carolyn A. Day, Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal, and Sickness in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Carolyn A Day, Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal, and Sickness in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025. Pp. xviii + 244. £16.55. Pbk. ISBN 978-1-4875-9390-2., Lawlor, C. 24 Dec 2025, In: Social History of Medicine
• Introduction, Lawlor, C., Williams, H. 25 Jun 2024, Myth and (mis)information, Manchester, Manchester University Press
• Myth and (Mis)information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture , Ingram, A., Lawlor, C., Williams, H. 25 Jun 2024
• 'The very women read it': Medical selffashioning, mythologies and (mis)information in George Cheyne MD's medical writings, Lawlor, C. 25 Jun 2024, Myth and (mis)information, Manchester, Manchester University Press
• Literature and Medicine: The Eighteenth Century, Lawlor, C., Mangham, A. 3 Jun 2021
• Romantic Consumption: The Paradox of Fashionable Breath, Lawlor, C. 2021, The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan
• Sleep and Stress Management in Enlightenment Literature and Poetry, Lawlor, C., Blackwood, A. 6 Jun 2020, In: Interface Focus
• 'Chaos dark and deep': Grotesque selves and self-fashioning in Pope's Dunciad, Lawlor, C. 2019, Writing and constructing the self in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century, Manchester University Press
• ‘The gloom of anxiety’: fear in the long eighteenth century’, Lawlor, C., Ingram, A. 1 Jan 2018, Dreadful Passions: Fear in the Literary and Medical Imagination, Medieval to Modern, Palgrave Macmillan
• Fashionable Diseases: Special issue of Literature and Medicine, Andrews, J., Lawlor, C. 21 Dec 2017

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• WRITING DOCTORS:SELF-REPRESENTATION AND REPUTATION AMONG MEDICAL MEN AND WOMEN IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, Lawlor, C. (Principal Investigator), The Leverhulme Trust, 30/09/18 - 29/09/21, £295,430.00

English PhD June 30 1994