David Morse was born in 1938 and educated at Bedford Modern School and King"s College, Cambridge, where he contributed to Granta, was editor of The Cambridge Review and was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship to study American theatre.
His seminal work, High Victorian Culture, was described by The Times Literary Supplement as ‘an illuminating survey work by a robust and powerful intelligence with an impressive grasp of a great deal of material’. Morse became a lecturer in the School of English and American Studies at the University of Sussex. His seminal work, High Victorian Culture, was described by The Times Literary Supplement as ‘an illuminating survey work by a robust and powerful intelligence with an impressive grasp of a great deal of material’.
He was an early authority on Motown but is now best known for his work on Romanticism and the culture and times of the Victorian age. Perspectives On Romanticism: A Transformational Analysis. Romanticism: A Structural Analysis.
American Romanticism. The Age Of Virtue: British Culture From The Restoration To Romanticism.
