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Robert Morrison

Robert Morrison
Robert Morrison is British Academy Global Professor at Bath Spa University and Queen’s National Scholar at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of The English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey, a finalist for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and The Regency Years, named by The Economist as one of its 2019 Books of the Year. He lives in Bath.


Just How Much is Jane Austen a Precursor to Bridgerton?

Robert Morrison on Race, Sex, and Violence in the Regency Era
March 17, 2022  By Robert Morrison
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Royal Baby! (Why Is America So Obsessed with
the British Monarchy?)

From Shakespeare to Austen, the Hagiographic to the Contemptuous
May 6, 2019  By Robert Morrison
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Sex and Sexability: On Writing Desire in the Regency Years

In Which Is Discussed Assorted 'Paragons of Debauchery'
April 30, 2019  By Robert Morrison
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