Name L. Curtis | Role Historian | |
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Jack the Ripper and the Lond, Apes and Angels: The Irish, The Depiction of Evictio, Coercion and conciliati, Images of Erin in the Age of Pa | ||
Lewis Perry Curtis Jr. (born 1932) is an American historian specializing in 19th century Irish history. He also covers modern culture and media.
The son of Lewis Perry Curtis, associate professor of history at Yale (1900-1976), L. Perry Curtis has written a number of books on 19th-century Ireland, including two books on political cartooning.
Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature covers how the Irish were caricatured by English and American cartoonists. Images of Erin in the Age of Parnell covers how Irish cartoonists depicted the female personification of Ireland, Erin. This was one of his most recognized book. http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1394312270l/2285969.jpg
Curtis had a teaching career of four decades and then became emeritus professor of history at Brown University, US. He married Alison (b. 1934), daughter of Francis Leader MacCarthy-Willis-Bund, a Chaplain, Fellow and Dean of Balliol College, Oxford, in 1959. Her great-grandfather was the writer John William Willis-Bund.
Selected books
Curtis has written the following books: