Ian Duncan

Ian Duncan is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens and Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh, as wll as a coeditor of Scott, Scotland, and Romantic Nationalism (a special issue of Studies in Romanticism) and Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism. He has edited Scott's Ivanhoe and Rob Roy, James Hogg's Winter Evening Tales and Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, and (with Elizabeth Bohls) Travel Writing, 1700-1830: An Anthology. He is working on a book on the novel and "the science of man" from 1740 to 1870.