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Robert Morrison

Professor of English Language and Literature, Queen's University, Ontario

Professor of English Language and Literature, Queen's University, Ontario Robert Morrison is Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, where he teaches nineteenth-century British literature. He is the author of The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey, which was a finalist for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. He has edited Jane Austen's Persuasion for Harvard University Press, and Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater for Oxford University Press. His book on the British Regency (1811-1820) is forthcoming with Norton in North America and Atlantic in Britain.