Introduction

Abstract

Ian Duncan is professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens (1992) and of Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (2007), which won the Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland Research Book of the Year Award for 2008. He is coeditor of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (2004) and an anthology, Travel Writing, 1700–1830 (2005), and he has edited Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1996) and Rob Roy (1998) and James Hogg's Winter Evening Tales (2002) and Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (forthcoming). His essay “The Moonstone, the Victorian Novel, and Imperialist Panic” appeared in the September 1994 issue of MLQ.