Josiah Mitchell Morse (January 14, 1912 – December 25, 2004) was an American writer and

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. He was an English professor at

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Works

* ''The Sympathetic Alien: James Joyce and Catholicism'' 1959, New York University Press * ''Matters of Style'' 1968, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. * ''The Irrelevant English Teacher'' 1972, Temple University Press, . * ''Prejudice and Literature'' 1976, Temple University Press,

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1912 births 2004 deaths American academics of English literature American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers James Joyce scholars {{US-English-academic-bio-stub