Lee Morrissey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Morrissey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Morrissey |
| SIGNATURE | MORRISSEY L |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4110-6253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Transplanting English Plantations in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Aphra Behn's 1688 novel, Oroonoko, tells the story of "the royal slave," in the subtitle's phrase, ostensibly an African prince captured by an English ship captain off the African coast and transported across the Atlantic into slavery in Surinam. Overlooked in this brutal, murderous, dismembering finale is the violent role of an Irishman, "one Banister, a wild Irish Man." This essay springs from a few simple questions: Who was this man, this Iris…
This Is Enlightenment: An Event in the History of Mediation
Book Review| September 01 2013 This Is Enlightenment: An Event in the History of Mediation? Siskin, Clifford, and William Warner, eds. This Is Enlightenment. (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2010). Pp. xii+ 505. 26 ills.$27.50paper Lee Morrissey Lee Morrissey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 95–104. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2325686 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter…
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) from The Tatler, No. 108 (Thursday, December 15, to Saturday, December 17, 1709)
I must confess, there is nothing that more pleases me in all that I read in books, or see among mankind, than such passages as represent human nature in its proper dignity. As man is a creature made up of different extremes, he has something in him very great and very mean: a skilful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views. The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous side. They cultivate th…
Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) from “On National Culture,” Wretched of the Earth (1961)
Inside the political parties, and most often in offshoots from these parties, cultured individuals of the colonised race make their appearance. For these individuals, the demand for a national culture and the affirmation of the existence of such a culture represent a special battlefield. While the politicians situate their action in actual presentday events, men of culture take their stand in the field of history. Confronted with the native intel…
Chinua Achebe (1930–) “Colonialist Criticism,” Hopes and Impediments (1974, 1988)
The word "colonialist" may be deemed inappropriate for two reasons. First, it has come to be associated in many minds with that brand of cheap, demagogic and outmoded rhetoric which the distinguished Ghanaian public servant Robert Gardiner no doubt has in mind when he speaks of our tendency to "intone the colonial litany," implying that the time has come when we must assume responsibility for our problems and our situation in the world and resist…
Debating the Canon: A Reader from Addison to Nafisi
Over the past two decades, the debate over the 'Great Books' has been one of the key public controversies concerning the cultural content of higher education. Debating the Canon provides a primary-sou
From the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of British Literature, 1660-1760
Eve's Otherness and the New Ethical Criticism
New Literary History - Volume 32, Number 2, Spring 2001
"Derrida, Algeria, and "Structure, Sign, and Play
Postmodern Culture - Volume 9, Number 2, January 1999
Henry Fielding: An Annotated Bibliography
Gulliver's Progress
Henry Fielding and the Ballad Opera
BALLAD OPERA has the distinction of being one of the few literary forms destroyed by a political decision. It began its short vigorous life in 1728 with its most famous representative, Gay's Beggar's Opera. Nine years and nearly one hundred ballad operas later, its life was virtually over. Walpole's Licensing Act may have been aimed at Fielding's satura, his satiric reviews, but it also managed to destroy the ballad opera. Only one new ballad ope…
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Henry Fielding and the Ballad Opera
BALLAD OPERA has the distinction of being one of the few literary forms destroyed by a political decision. It began its short vigorous life in 1728 with its most famous representative, Gay's Beggar's Opera. Nine years and nearly one hundred ballad operas later, its life was virtually over. Walpole's Licensing Act may have been aimed at Fielding's satura, his satiric reviews, but it also managed to destroy the ballad opera. Only one new ballad ope…
Gulliver's Progress
Henry Fielding: An Annotated Bibliography
"Derrida, Algeria, and "Structure, Sign, and Play
Postmodern Culture - Volume 9, Number 2, January 1999
Eve's Otherness and the New Ethical Criticism
New Literary History - Volume 32, Number 2, Spring 2001
From the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of British Literature, 1660-1760
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) from The Tatler, No. 108 (Thursday, December 15, to Saturday, December 17, 1709)
I must confess, there is nothing that more pleases me in all that I read in books, or see among mankind, than such passages as represent human nature in its proper dignity. As man is a creature made up of different extremes, he has something in him very great and very mean: a skilful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views. The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous side. They cultivate th…
Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) from “On National Culture,” Wretched of the Earth (1961)
Inside the political parties, and most often in offshoots from these parties, cultured individuals of the colonised race make their appearance. For these individuals, the demand for a national culture and the affirmation of the existence of such a culture represent a special battlefield. While the politicians situate their action in actual presentday events, men of culture take their stand in the field of history. Confronted with the native intel…
Chinua Achebe (1930–) “Colonialist Criticism,” Hopes and Impediments (1974, 1988)
The word "colonialist" may be deemed inappropriate for two reasons. First, it has come to be associated in many minds with that brand of cheap, demagogic and outmoded rhetoric which the distinguished Ghanaian public servant Robert Gardiner no doubt has in mind when he speaks of our tendency to "intone the colonial litany," implying that the time has come when we must assume responsibility for our problems and our situation in the world and resist…
Debating the Canon: A Reader from Addison to Nafisi
Over the past two decades, the debate over the 'Great Books' has been one of the key public controversies concerning the cultural content of higher education. Debating the Canon provides a primary-sou
This Is Enlightenment: An Event in the History of Mediation
Book Review| September 01 2013 This Is Enlightenment: An Event in the History of Mediation? Siskin, Clifford, and William Warner, eds. This Is Enlightenment. (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2010). Pp. xii+ 505. 26 ills.$27.50paper Lee Morrissey Lee Morrissey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 95–104. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2325686 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter…
Transplanting English Plantations in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Aphra Behn's 1688 novel, Oroonoko, tells the story of "the royal slave," in the subtitle's phrase, ostensibly an African prince captured by an English ship captain off the African coast and transported across the Atlantic into slavery in Surinam. Overlooked in this brutal, murderous, dismembering finale is the violent role of an Irishman, "one Banister, a wild Irish Man." This essay springs from a few simple questions: Who was this man, this Iris…
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