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Modern Romance examines the relationship between the revival of
romance form and the ascendancy of the novel in British literary
culture, from 1760 to 1850. The revival of romance as the literary
embodiment of a national cultural identity provided a metaphor for
the 'authenticity' of the novel itself, set against the changing
formations of modern life. The material conditions, cultural status
and formal repertoire of prose fiction were given a canonical
transformation, leading to the form's nineteenth-century heyday, in
Scott's Waverley novels. Ian Duncan's illuminating and innovative
study begins with the first identification of modern prose fiction
with romance form in the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel, and
moves through Scott's highly influential dialectical blend of
romance and history, to his relations with his successor in the
role of national author, Charles Dickens.
Originally published in 2004, Scotland and the Borders of
Romanticism is a collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish
writing between 1745 and 1830 - a key period marking the contested
divide between Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism in British
literary history. Essays in the volume, by leading scholars from
Scotland, England, Canada and the USA, address a range of major
figures and topics, among them Hume and the Romantic imagination,
Burns's poetry, the Scottish song and ballad revivals, gender and
national tradition, the prose fiction of Walter Scott and James
Hogg, the national theatre of Joanna Baillie, the Romantic
varieties of historicism and antiquarianism, Romantic Orientalism,
and Scotland as a site of English cultural fantasies. The essays
undertake a collective rethinking of the national and period
categories that have structured British literary history, by
examining the relations between the concepts of Enlightenment and
Romanticism as well as between Scottish and English writing.
Modern Romance examines the relationship between the revival of
romance form and the ascendancy of the novel in British literary
culture, from 1760 to 1850. The revival of romance as the literary
embodiment of a national cultural identity provided a metaphor for
the 'authenticity' of the novel itself, set against the changing
formations of modern life. The material conditions, cultural status
and formal repertoire of prose fiction were given a canonical
transformation, leading to the form's nineteenth-century heyday, in
Scott's Waverley novels. Ian Duncan's illuminating and innovative
study begins with the first identification of modern prose fiction
with romance form in the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel, and
moves through Scott's highly influential dialectical blend of
romance and history, to his relations with his successor in the
role of national author, Charles Dickens.
Originally published in 2004, Scotland and the Borders of
Romanticism is a collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish
writing between 1745 and 1830 - a key period marking the contested
divide between Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism in British
literary history. Essays in the volume, by leading scholars from
Scotland, England, Canada and the USA, address a range of major
figures and topics, among them Hume and the Romantic imagination,
Burns's poetry, the Scottish song and ballad revivals, gender and
national tradition, the prose fiction of Walter Scott and James
Hogg, the national theatre of Joanna Baillie, the Romantic
varieties of historicism and antiquarianism, Romantic Orientalism,
and Scotland as a site of English cultural fantasies. The essays
undertake a collective rethinking of the national and period
categories that have structured British literary history, by
examining the relations between the concepts of Enlightenment and
Romanticism as well as between Scottish and English writing.
Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's
most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Exhibiting
the most complex genesis of any of Hogg's works, it is the
outstanding example of a 'national' genre pioneered by him -- the
miscellaneous collection of popular and traditional narratives.
Hogg's experimental medley of novellas, tales, poems and sketches
posed a lively alternative to the dominant form of the historical
novel established by Walter Scott. The collection includes terse
masterpieces of mystery and the uncanny, virtuoso improvisations on
folktale themes, and -- the highlights of the edition -- two
brilliant autobiographical novellas, The Renowned Adventures of
Basil Lee and Love Adventures of Mr George Cochrane. Reprinted in
incomplete and unreliable texts in Victorian editions of Hogg's
works, Winter Evening Tales fell into almost total obscurity after
the author's death. The Stirling/ South Carolina Edition of the
Collected Works of James Hogg is delighted to republish this key
work in Hogg's career in its entirety for the first time since the
early nineteenth century.
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
stable, universal human nature to one that changes over time. In
Human Forms, Ian Duncan reorients our understanding of the novel's
formation during its cultural ascendancy, arguing that fiction
produced new knowledge in a period characterized by the interplay
between literary and scientific discourses-even as the two were
separating into distinct domains. Duncan focuses on several crisis
points: the contentious formation of a natural history of the human
species in the late Enlightenment; the emergence of new genres such
as the Romantic bildungsroman; historical novels by Walter Scott
and Victor Hugo that confronted the dissolution of the idea of a
fixed human nature; Charles Dickens's transformist aesthetic and
its challenge to Victorian realism; and George Eliot's reckoning
with the nineteenth-century revolutions in the human and natural
sciences. Modeling the modern scientific conception of a
developmental human nature, the novel became a major experimental
instrument for managing the new set of divisions-between nature and
history, individual and species, human and biological life-that
replaced the ancient schism between animal body and immortal soul.
The first book to explore the interaction of European fiction with
"the natural history of man" from the late Enlightenment through
the mid-Victorian era, Human Forms sets a new standard for work on
natural history and the novel.
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The Lost World (Paperback)
Arthur Conan Doyle; Edited by Ian Duncan
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`the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended. The various checks with
influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all
neutralized or altered. Creatures survive which would otherwise
disappear.' Headed by the larger than life figure of Professor
Challenger, a scientific expedition sets out to explore a plateau
in South America that remains frozen in time from the days when
dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Seemingly impossible to penetrate, this
lost word holds great danger for the four men, whether from
fiendish ape-men or terrifying prehistoric creatures. Arthur Conan
Doyle's classic tale of adventure and discovery still excites the
reader today, just as dinosaurs continue to grip the popular
imagination. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
One of the supreme masterpieces of Romantic fiction and Scottish
literature, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified
Sinner is a terrifying tale of murder and amorality, and of one
man's descent into madness and despair. James Hogg's sardonic novel
follows a young man who, falling under the spell of a mysterious
stranger who bears an uncanny likeness to himself, embarks on a
career as a serial murderer. The memoirs are presented by a
narrator whose attempts to explain the story only succeed in
intensifying its more baffling and bizarre aspects. Is the young
man the victim of a psychotic delusion, or has he been tempted by
the devil to wage war against God's enemies? The authoritative and
lively introduction by Ian Duncan covers the full range of
historical and religious themes and contexts, offers a richer and
more accurate consideration of the novel's relation to Romantic
fiction than found elsewhere, and sheds new light on the novel's
treatment of fanaticism. Copious notes identify the novel's
historical, biblical, theological, and literary allusions.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Kidnapped (Paperback)
Robert Louis Stevenson; Introduction by Ian Duncan; Notes by Ian Duncan
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'Your bed shall be the moorcock's, and your life shall be like the
hunted deer's, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your
weapons.' Tricked out of his inheritance, shanghaied, shipwrecked
off the west coast of Scotland, David Balfour finds himself fleeing
for his life in the dangerous company of Jacobite outlaw and
suspected assassin Alan Breck Stewart. Their unlikely friendship is
put to the test as they dodge government troops across the Scottish
Highlands. Set in the aftermath of the 1745 rebellion, Kidnapped
transforms the Romantic historical novel into the modern thriller.
Its heart-stopping scenes of cross-country pursuit, distilled to a
pure intensity in Stevenson's prose, have become a staple of
adventure stories from John Buchan to Alfred Hitchcock and Ian
Fleming. Kidnapped remains as exhilarating today as when it was
first published in 1886. This new edition is based on the 1895
text, incorporating Stevenson's last thoughts about the novel
before his death. It includes Stevenson's 'Note to Kidnapped',
reprinted for the first time since 1922. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over
100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest
range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
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Rob Roy (Paperback)
Walter Scott; Edited by Ian Duncan
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R324
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For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end
of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about
Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw
is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell of
the novel's hero, Frank Osbaldistone, on his journey through the
wild northern territories of the new United Kingdom. Banished from
his father's house, falling hopelessly in love with the spirited
Diana Vernon, Frank becomes involved in he conspiracy surrounding
the disastrous Jacobite rising of 1715. His adventures take him to
`MacGregor's country', across the Highland Line, where he finds
cruelty, heartbreak, and some unlikely friends. By turns thrilling
and comic, Rob Roy contains Scott's most sophisticated treatment of
the Scottish Highlands as an imaginary space where the modern and
the primitive come together. Newly edited from the `Magnum Opus'
text of 1830, this edition includes full explanatory notes and a
critical introduction exploring the originality and complexity of
Scott's achievement. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature
from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
As traditional social hierarchies fall away, ever steeper levels of
economic inequality and the entrenchment of new class distinctions
lend a new glamor to the idea of aristocracy: witness the worldwide
popularity of Downton Abbey, or the seemingly insatiable public
fascination with the private lives of the British royal family.
This collection of essays investigates the enduring attraction with
the icon of the aristocrat and the spectacle of aristocratic
society. It traces the ambivalent reactions the aristocracy
provokes and the needs (political, ideological, psychological, and
otherwise) it caters to in modern times when the economic power of
the landed classes have been eroded and their political role
curtailed. In this interdisciplinary collection, aristocracy is
considered from multiple viewpoints, including British and American
literature, European history and politics, cultural studies,
linguistics, visual arts, music, and media studies.
Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's
most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Its
experimental medley of novellas, tales, poems and sketches posed a
lively alternative to the dominant form of the historical novel
established by Walter Scott. The collection includes terse
masterpieces of mystery and the uncanny, virtuoso improvisations on
folktale themses, and two brilliant autobiographical novellas, 'The
Renowned Adventures of Basil Lee' and 'Love Adventures of Mr George
Cochrane'. This paperback edition takes account of newly-discovered
information about 'An Old Soldier's Tale' and 'The Long Pack'. A
critical introduction, explanatory notes, reading list and Hogg
chronology are provided to assist the reader in appreciating Hogg's
entertaining and challenging tale collection to the full.
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
history, reception and reputation, his treatments of politics,
religion, nationality, social class, sexuality and gender, and the
diverse literary forms - ballads, songs, poems, drama, short
stories, novels, periodicals - in which he wrote. Key Features: *
Thorough coverage of the whole of Hogg's works, career and
contexts, as well as detailed considerations of his most famous
work, Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner * The
contributors are all major figures in Hogg studies and include
editors of the definitive Stirling South Carolina Research Edition
of the Collected Works of James Hogg, including Caroline
McCracken-Flesher (Wyoming), Hans de Groot (Toronto), Penny
Fielding(Edinburgh), Peter Garside (Edinburgh) and Gillian Hughes.
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Ivanhoe (Paperback)
Walter Scott; Edited by Ian Duncan
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More than a century after the Norman Conquest, England remains a
colony of foreign warlords. The dissolute Prince John plots to
seize his brother's crown, his barons terrorize the country, and
the mysterious outlaw Robin Hood haunts the ancient greenwood. The
secret return of King Richard and the disinherited Saxon knight,
Ivanhoe, heralds the start of a splendid and tumultuous romance,
featuring the tournament at Ashby-de-la-Zouche, the siege of
Torquilstone, and the clash of wills between the wicked Templar
Bois-Guilbert and the sublime Jewess Rebecca. In Ivanhoe Scott
fashioned an imperial myth of national cultural identity that has
shaped the popular imagination ever since its first appearance at
the end of 1819. The most famous of Scottish novelists drew on the
conventions of Gothic fiction, including its risky sexual and
racial themes, to explore the violent origins and limits of English
nationality. This edition uses the 1830 Magnum Opus text, corrected
against the Interleaved Set, and incorporates readings from Scott's
manuscript. The introduction examines the originality and cultural
importance of Ivanhoe, and draws on current work by historians and
cultural critics. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature
from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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