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.

Get Back: The Beatles rocked the rooftop 50 years ago
Jan 29, 2019 12:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
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