Kevin A.Morrison
In this lively and illuminating work, Kevin A. Morrison offers a reassessment of Mary Russell Mitford’s and Elizabeth Gaskell’s provincial fiction, sometimes deprecated within a genre frequently considered ‘minor literature’, and demonstrates the importance of their work to the development of George Eliot’s liberalism in the age of high realism. Attending to publication history, genre, and narrative voice, Morrison suggests new ways to think about provincialism, liberalism, and women’s networked authorship in the nineteenth century.
[A] groundbreaking interdisciplinary book, linking Victorian literature and culture and the history of architecture and design and based on extensive research in British and American archives. Kevin A. Morrison innovatively intersects material culture and political theory in understanding nineteenth-century liberalism.
-MLA Prize citation
Leading an effective study-abroad program can be complicated, and those undertaking this exciting and challenging role will find this book both thoughtful and helpful. . . .The strengths of this book are many and make it a worthwhile read, especially for faculty who may be leading a study-abroad program for the first time, though veterans will find many topics of interest as well.
- Julianne Smith, Journal of Experiential Education
Kevin Morrison’s book definitely breaks new ground by exploring the concept of ‘liberal parenting’ in Victorian Britain, through a detailed examination of the practice and ideas of the leading Liberal writer and politician, John Morley.
Ian Packer, Journal of Liberal History
Award-winning finalist in Anthologies:
Non-Fiction Category
International Book Awards (2019)
The volume is a veritable gold mine of miscellaneous information on Victorian and Edwardian writers of fiction.
- William Baker, The Year's Work in English Studies
Winner:
Education/Academic (2023)
Concrete, rhetorically rich, impactful, and engaging in multimodal literacy, this timely volume is an essential contribution to writing scholarship on demystifying the role of seminar essay writing in graduate-level and professional literary studies.
- Julia Istomina, The Yale Graduate Writing Lab, The Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University
Morrison and his writers . . . present
a volume with universal appeal. Its interdisciplinary nature will invite readers
from a wide variety of fields including political science, clothing history,
postcolonial, fashion, literary and cultural studies. Add to this, advanced
undergraduate and postgraduate students who study material culture, gender politics and imperialism and we have quite an extensive group who will benefit
from this appealing and provocative publication.
Linda Florence Matheson, Fashion, Style, and Popular Culture
The recovery of forgotten authors remains an important centerpiece of Victorian
studies. Kevin A. Morrison’s recent volume . . . offers a timely and important meditation on the restoration of
authors who have fallen out of favor or slipped into obscurity.
-Heidi Kaufman, Victorian Studies
[P]rovides an integral contribution to the history of publishing and of literary production, and to studies of liberalism and reform as they appeared at the end of the century.
- Peter Katz, Victorians Institute Journal
