Dr Robert Morrison

PhD Edinburgh

Contact Information

Office: Kingston Hall 212C
Office Hours:
Extension: 78219
E-mail: morrisnr@queensu.ca
Website: Thomas De Quincey Homepage

Research Interests

Thomas De Quincey, William Wordsworth, John Wilson, Leigh Hunt, Jane Austen, The Regency, British magazines, print culture, the literature of addiction, detective fiction.

Recent Publications

• The 21st-Century Oxford Authors: Thomas De Quincey, ed. Robert Morrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
• Romanticism and Blackwood’s Magazine: “An Unprecedented Phenomenon,” ed. Robert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2013).
• Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings, ed. Robert Morrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
• Jane Austen, Persuasion, ed. Robert Morrison (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011).
• The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009; New York: Pegasus, 2010).
• Thomas De Quincey: New Theoretical and Critical Directions, ed. Robert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts (New York: Routledge, 2008).
• Thomas De Quincey, On Murder, ed. Robert Morrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

Blog Posts

• “Thomas De Quincey and Murder as a Fine Art: A Conversation with David Morrell and Robert Morrison,” Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, web.
• “Gimme Shelter: De Quincey on Drugs,” OUPBlog, Oxford University Press, web.
• “De Quincey’s Wicked Book,” OUPBlog, Oxford University Press, web.
• “De Quincey’s Fine Art,” OUPBlog, Oxford University Press, web.
• “Vampyre Rising,” OUPBlog, Oxford University Press, web.
• “Annotating Austen,” Harvard University Press Blog, Harvard University Press, web.
• “Auctioning Jane,” Harvard University Press Blog, Harvard University Press, web.

Remarks

Author of The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009), which was a finalist for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, 2010. Co-general editor of The Selected Works of Leigh Hunt, and editor of Hunt’s essays, 1822–38 (Pickering and Chatto, 2003). Editor of three volumes of the Works of Thomas De Quincey, and co-editor of a fourth (Pickering and Chatto, 2000–03). Editor of Thomas De Quincey, On Murder (Oxford, 2006), Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: A Sourcebook (Routledge, 2005), and “Richard Woodhouse’s Cause Book: The Opium-Eater, the Magazine Wars, and the London Literary Scene in 1821,” Harvard Library Bulletin (1998). Co-editor, with Chris Baldick, of The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (Oxford, 1997), and Tales of Terror from Blackwood’s Magazine (Oxford, 1995). Author of “William Blackwood and the Dynamics of Success,” Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition, 1805–1930 (Toronto, 2006) and “The Romantic Essayists,” Literature of the Romantic Period: A Bibliographical Guide, ed. Michael O’Neill (Oxford, 1998). Articles in Essays in Criticism, Romanticism, The Wordsworth Circle, and Victorian Periodicals Review.

Awards

• University of Lethbridge Distinguished Alumnus of the Year (2013)
• Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Teaching Award (2008)
• Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching (2008)
• W. J. Barnes Award for Excellence in Teaching(2006)
• Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006)