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(0)Ian Duncan
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"Winner of the 2008 Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland Research Book of the Year Award" Ian Duncan is professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel and the coeditor of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism.
Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh...
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In his new memoir, On Cove Mountain, author Ian Duncan discloses the true story of his commitment to a mental institution in 2001 and his sixteen-year battle to put behind him the stigma, trauma, self-doubt, and legal consequences arising from his journey through depression. Here, in unflinching detail, he describes his passage from confinement in a padded cell to freedom on the peculiar, mountain that, became the setting for his spiritual sojourn,...
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Ian Duncan is professor and Florence Green Bixby Chair in English at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Princeton).
A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary science
The 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both the rise of the novel and the shift from the presumption of a...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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Kidnapped was published in 1886 amid one of the most productive periods of Robert Louis Stevenson's career. Although it was immediately met with popular success and critical acclaim, the novel was derided for decades as a story for children before being recognized as a major work of English literature.
Set in the aftermath of the Jacobite uprising of 1745, and full of a rich blend of English and Scots, Kidnapped is a powerful work with strong Scottish...