Josiah Mitchell Morse

Josiah Mitchell Morse was an American writer and literary critic. He was an English professor at Temple University in Philadelphia. He was a critic of African American vernacular English, writing in a book of his that "Black English is demoralized language, an idiom of fettered minds, the shuffling speech of slavery."

Works

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