Robert Morrison

I am an author, editor, and academic. My book, The Regency Years, published by W. W. Norton, is now available:

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

Thomas De Quincey (1821): “It was Easter Sunday….I was standing, as it seemed to me, at the door of my own cottage….I gazed upon the well-known scene, and I said aloud (as I thought) to myself… ‘I will walk abroad; old griefs shall be forgotten to-day’”.

[Wordsworth Grasmere @WordsworthGras]

In this short film, Professor Robert Morrison, British Academy Global Professor at Bath Spa University, explains why this manuscript is the most important letter Thomas De Quincey ever wrote. Filmed in the Jerwood Centre at Wordsworth Grasmere.
https://t.co/1nbVGyUTGo

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

Fifty-four years ago today, The Beatles rocked the rooftop: https://t.co/EnzTx10k8o

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

M. J. Maloney’s The Ghostwriters is available at 25% off pre-order with Barnes and Noble. Use the code PREORDER25 at check out!
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[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

A lively and insightful assessment of my book on The Regency Years: https://t.co/v3VDGekVqZ #TheRegencyYears #TheAustenConnection #JaneAusten #LordByron #MaryShelley #RegencyRakes

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

David Bowie, Billy Joel, Beau Brummell, and more: a new interview on The Regency Years: https://t.co/Lo4E3FwQ3t. #DavidBowie #BillyJoel #BeauBrummell #TheRegencyYears

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

Just How Much is Jane Austen a Precursor to Bridgerton?: https://t.co/Rn0dNS0wkW #JaneAusten #bridgerton2 #LitHub #TheRegencyYears

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

Looking very forward to speaking live tonight on Thomas De Quincey and the Dreams of Somerset:
https://t.co/78MJC5ZUhI.
#DeQuincey #BRLSI #BritishRomanticism #Opium #Wordsworth #Coleridge

[Matthew Sangster @MJRSangster]

One month until the CfP for De Quincey's Confessions at 200 closes (on November 15th). If you fancy coming to the Lakes in May to discuss De Quincey (and to hear @rjhmorrison's plenary), please send an abstract to Tim Fulford, @brecht_groote and me: [email protected].

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

‘Sex and the Regency: Love, Rakery, and Respectability’: https://t.co/BnlnUYvUVd. Join us! #JaneAusten #PrinceRegent #LordByron #MaryShelley

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

There is a wonderful new review of The Regency Years on Society Nineteen: https://t.co/viDuqQONbp. #RegencyYears #JaneAusten #LordByron #Waterloo #DukeofWellington

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

Thomas De Quincey published the first part of his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater two hundred years ago this month:
https://t.co/6tAZQ5yqDt
#DeQuincey #ConfessionsofanEnglishOpiumEater #WordsworthTrust

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

Jane Austen, Walter Scott, and the Brontës are all represented in an amazing private library of rare manuscripts: https://t.co/zMh4gOlvIJ #JaneAusten #WalterScott #Brontës

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

"If the doors of perception were cleansed," declared the poet William Blake, "everything would appear to man as it is, infinite": https://t.co/t5E0f03Fdv. #RomanticPoetry #WilliamBlake #MarriageofHeavenandHell

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

Revealed: Lord Byron’s £,4000 cheque helped create modern Greece:
https://t.co/L2uOAK1oP6 #LordByron
#GreekWarofIndependence

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

Thomas De Quincey in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: “It yet wants much of sun-rise; and it is Easter Sunday; and that is the day on which they celebrate the first fruits of resurrection. I will walk abroad; old griefs shall be forgotten to-day.” #DeQuincey #Confessions

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

The modern vampire first walked among us 202 years ago today:
https://t.co/4CqF1HzcgD #Vampires #Polidori #Byron #Frankenstein #MaryShelley

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

As an English prof, I really like hearing about book clubs and people who love reading. Here’s one that especially caught my eye!: https://t.co/2Ff1LA7CHT. #JASNA #Bookclubs #JaneAusten #TheRegencyYears

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

Paul Douglass has updated his wonderful site on Lady Caroline Lamb, the remarkable Regency novelist and socialite who famously described her lover Lord Byron as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know": https://t.co/v39MyOYeBj #LadyCarolineLamb #LordByron #RegencyWomen #TheRegencyYears

[Robert Morrison @rjhmorrison]

I’ve done an interview with the Jane Austen Summer Program. It’s on Austen, Regency fashion, the Empire, and much else: https://t.co/DOFXK8elmw #JASP #JaneAusten #PrinceRegent #BeauBrummell #TheRegencyYears