UC Berkeley English

Ian Duncan

Professor
Florence Green Bixby Chair in English
456 Wheeler
Spring 2013: Wednesdays 2:30-5:00pm
iduncan@berkeley.edu

I studied at King's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1977) and Yale University (Ph.D., 1989), and taught for several years in the Yale English department before being appointed Barbara and Carlisle Moore Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Oregon in 1995. I came to Berkeley in 2001, and was appointed to the Florence Green Bixby Chair in English in 2011. I am the author of Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel (Cambridge, 1992) and Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Princeton, 2007). I am currently researching a study of the novel and the "science of man" from Buffon to Darwin. I've taught courses on Scotland and Romanticism, Darwin and Culture, Gothic, Walter Scott, the novel and Enlightenment anthropology, and nineteenth-century British fiction, among other topics. I am currently a Vice-President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a member of the editorial board of Representations, a General Editor of the Collected Works of James Hogg, and co-editor of a new book series, Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism.

Books

	Title	Fields
	Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation. Ian Duncan shows how Walter Scott became the central figure in these developments, and how he helped redefine the novel as the principal modern genre for the representation of nat....	Narrative & the Novel 19th-Century British Scottish
	The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner 'We have heard much of the rage of fanaticism in former days, but nothing to this' A wretched young man, 'an outcast in the world', tells the story of his upbringing by a heretical Calvinist minister who leads him to believe that he is one of the elect, predestined for salvation and thus above the moral law. Falling under the spell of a mysterious stranger who bears an unca....	Narrative & the Novel 19th-Century British Scottish
	The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg James Hogg (1770-1835) is increasingly recognised as a major Scottish author and one of the most original figures in European Romanticism. 16 essays written by international experts on Hogg draw on recent breakthroughs in research to illuminate the contexts and debates that helped to shape his writings. The book provides an indispensable guide to Hogg's life and worlds, his publishing histo....	19th-Century British Scottish
	Taking Liberties with the Author Chapter 2. "Death and the Author," Ian Duncan http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.90058.0001.001 ....	Critical Theory 19th-Century British Scottish

Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

Monographs

Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521395359

Scott’s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8517.html
(Saltire Society / National Library of Scotland Research Book of the Year Award, 2008)

Edited collections

"Scott, Scotland and Romantic Nationalism": special issue of Studies in Romanticism (40:1, Spring 2001). Co-edited with Ann Rowland and Charles Snodgrass.

Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism. Co-edited with Leith Davis and Janet Sorensen. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item5759573/?site_locale=en_US

Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels. Co-edited with Evan Gottlieb. Modern Language Association, 2009
http://www.mla.org/store/CID39/PID376

The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg. Co-edited with Douglas Mack. Edinburgh University Press, 2012 http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748641239

Editions

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World. Oxford University Press, 1995, 1998. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199538799.do?keyword=the+lost+world&sortby=bestMatches

Walter Scott, Ivanhoe. Oxford University Press, 1996.
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199538409.do?keyword=Ivanhoe&sortby=bestMatches

Walter Scott, Rob Roy. Oxford University Press, 1998. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199549887.do?keyword=ROB+ROY&sortby=bestMatches

James Hogg, Winter Evening Tales: Collected among the Cottagers in the South of Scotland. Edinburgh University Press, 2002; 2004. http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748620869

Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology. Co-edited with Elizabeth Bohls. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199537525.do?keyword=travel+writing&sortby=bestMatches

James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Oxford University Press, 2010.
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199217953.do?keyword=confessions+of+a+justified+sinner&sortby=bestMatches

Selected recent essays

“The Historical Novel,” in Charles Dickens in Context, ed. Sally Ledger and Holly Furneaux. Cambridge University Press (2011), pp. 158-165.

“Urban Space and Enlightened Romanticism,” The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism, ed. Murray Pittock. Edinburgh University Press (2011), pp. 72-83

“Introduction,” Walter Scott, Waverley, ed. P.D. Garside. Penguin Classics (2011), pp. xi-xxx

“The Trouble with Man: Scott, Romance and World History in the Age of Lamarck,” in Romantic Frictions, ed. Theresa Kelley. Romantic Circles: Praxis Series (Sept. 2011) http://romantic.arhu.umd.edu/praxis/frictions/HTML/praxis.2011.duncan.html

" 'A great, a transcendent sinner': Hogg and the Fables of Romanticism," Studies in Hogg and his World 22 (2012), 1-18

“Altered States: Galt, Serial Fiction and the Romantic Miscellany,” John Galt: Observations and Conjectures on Literature, History, and Society, ed. Regina Hewitt. Bucknell UP (2012), pp. 53-71

"Late Scott," The Edinburgh Companion to Walter Scott, ed. Fiona Robertson. Edinburgh UP (2012), pp. 130-142.

"On Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle," BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=ian-duncan-on-charles-darwina-and-the-voyage-of-the-beagle-1831-36

"Death and the Author," Taking Liberties with the Author: Selected Essays from the English Institute, ed. Meredith L. McGill. English Institute / ACLS E-Books (2013). http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.90058.0001.001

“George Eliot and the Science of the Human.” A Companion to George Eliot, ed. Amanda Anderson and Harry Shaw. Blackwell-Wiley (forthcoming: 2013)

Recent & upcoming talks and lectures:

Indisciplines of Enlightenment: Summer seminar of UC Multi-Campus Research Group, "The Material Cultures of Knowledge 1650-1800," co-director with Adriana Craciun, UC Berkeley, July 2012

"Extreme Pastoral: James Hogg and Other Animals," James Hogg Society Conference, Hogg and the Romantics, Univ. of Glasgow, June-July 2012

"The Discovery of Scotland: Scott and 'World Literature'," inaugural lecture: Scottish Literature International, Scottish Parliament, Nov. 2012; University of Vechta, Dec. 2012

"The Romantic Novel and the Natural History of Man," University of Venice, Ca' Foscari; Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Dec. 2012

"Romantic Realism, Victorian Romance," Roundtable (Romantic Period and Victorian Divisions), MLA, Boston, Jan. 2013

"George Eliot's Science Fiction," Symposium: Denotation: Understudied Languages of Victorian Fiction, NYU, April 2013

“Literature,” Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain: Workshop, Center for British Studies, UC Berkeley, May 2013

"Kant, Herder, and the Anthropological Turn," GER/NASSR conference: Romantic Knowledge, Munich, Oct. 2013

Session organizer, "The Historical Novel," World Congress on Scottish Literatures: Glasgow, summer 2014

1814, colloquium, UC Berkeley, fall 2014 (in preparation)

Current Research

I am working on a new book on the novel and human nature in the age of the "science of man" -- from Hume's Treatise of Human Nature and Buffon's Natural History to Darwin's Descent of Man, from Tom Jones and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship to Daniel Deronda -- with the provisional title The Great Book of Nature: The Form of the Novel and the Form of Man. (Scott,Waverley: "It is from the great book of Nature, the same through a thousand editions, whether of black letter or wire-wove and hot-pressed, that I have venturously essayed to read a chapter to the public.") As the "science of man" breaks up into contending disciplines the novel makes its claim -- increasingly vexed and tortuous -- to be the literary form of a universal, singular human nature ... even as human nature is convulsed by a succession of philosophical scandals and revolutions. So far I've been working on Lamarckian fictions, circa 1830, by Scott (Count Robert of Paris: http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/frictions/HTML/praxis.2011.duncan.html) and Victor Hugo (Notre-Dame de Paris); on Enlightenment anthropology (Buffon, Rousseau, Ferguson, Herder, Kant) and the Romantic novel (Goethe, Stael, Scott); and on George Eliot's science fiction.

Recent English Courses Taught

45B/1	Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries	Introductory Surveys
	45B/101 -- discussion section	Bufton, Emma
	45B/102 -- discussion section	Kelly, Tyleen
	45B/103 -- discussion section	Stancek, Claire Marie

45B/1	Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries	Introductory Surveys British 18th-Century British 19th-Century American Literature
	45B/101 -- discussion section	Dumont, Alex
	45B/102 -- discussion section	Ling, Jessica
	45B/103 -- discussion section	Taylor, Bradford Alden
45B/2	Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries	Introductory Surveys British 18th-Century British 19th-Century American Literature
	45B/201 -- discussion section	Kolb, Margaret
	45B/202 -- discussion section	Mangin, Sarah
	45B/203 -- discussion section	Stephens, Charisse
203/4	Graduate Readings: British Novel--1800-1900	British 19th-Century Novel Graduate Courses

Ian Duncan

Professional Statement

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Books

Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

Current Research

Recent English Courses Taught

Fall, 2013

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Spring, 2012

Fall, 2011

Spring, 2011