Ian Duncan > Quotes

“Scotch novels and Scotch reviewers were the most brilliant constellations in a northern literary galaxy which included - besides the historical romance and critical quarterly - a professional intellectual class, the entrpreneurial publisher, the nationalist ballad epic, and the monthly magazine. If not all absolutely original, here these genres and institutions acquired their definitive forms and associations, and a prestige they would bear throughout the nineteenth century.”
― Ian Duncan, Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh