Ian Duncan
Biographic Data
| ID | 116266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Duncan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Duncan |
| SIGNATURE | DUNCAN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4774-8254 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Forms of Disavowal
Climate of Denial is an outstanding contribution to the vibrant subfield of Victorian literary and environmental studies. The period covered marks the full-scale onset of the Anthropocene, our current epoch of (it seems) permanent modification of the earth's natural systems by human activity, with the takeoff of the carbon-based industrial revolution and the West's planetwide geopolitical dominance. Recent monographs (this is a very selective lis…
Excessive Belief
Nineteenth-century historical fiction, as established, per Georg Lukács, in Walter Scott's “classical form of the historical novel,” neutralizes strong psychic energies of historical agency—enthusiasm—by containing them within a representation of impersonal historical process driven by immanent scientific laws. The enthusiast, the quixotic dupe of an overheated imagination, believes he is not only the hero of the story but its author too. Scott i…
Modernity Stories II
Primitive Marriage analyzes the conjectural history installed in Victorian anthropology and taken up by novelists, in which sex drives a civilizational progress from domination and force to liberal relations of exchange, contract, and consent. Kathy Psomiades’s act of critical reflection doubles fin-de-siècle anthropology’s reflexive turn upon its own investments in symbol and representation. Her argument models an ethically and politically respo…
Not an ‘ordinary Under-Secretary’ for India
Lord Lothian (Philip Kerr) (1882–1940) had a close association with India for almost thirty years. He played a crucial role in the development of the early policy of The Round Table towards the subcontinent. He was a short-lived junior minister in charge of Indian affairs during a critical phase of the late colonial constitutional reforms. After his resignation he maintained an active relationship with India and an influential presence. During al…
Classifying and counting the Dalits in the late colonial period
The Jatavs of the United Provinces were not legally recognised as a separate caste until 1942; and then only as a consequence of an exceptional revision of legislation. Yet, for some considerable time before, the provincial authorities had routinely treated Jatavs as if they had already been granted the status of an officially recognised distinct caste grouping. This was despite a ruling in 1933, endorsed jointly by the India Office, the Governme…
Fiction without Humanity
Gandhi, Ambedkar and British Policy on the Communal Award
This article considers the proposition, advanced by Sujay Biswas, that the British ‘manufactured’ the demand for a separate ‘Untouchable’ electorate in the Communal Award of 1932. First, the evidence cited by Biswas is closely examined. His proposition is then assessed in the context of the deliberations of the colonial authorities in India, the provincial administration in the United Provinces (UP) and the Cabinet of the United Kingdom (UK). It …
Reflections on the Republican Party
Towards the end of the 1960s, the Ambedkarite Republican Party of India was facing a serious crisis. Its plight intensified with the death of the leader Dadasaheb Gaikwad at the end of 1971. This article takes the long view of the predicament of the party and asks why it had suffered such frequent and lasting instability. Drawing on interviews conducted at that time, including those conducted at the party New Delhi headquarters on Janpath, more r…
The Bhangi and the Chamar should be Called to the Councils of Empire’
The franchise enquiry led by Lord Lothian (Philip Kerr) was a central component in the Indian constitutional reform process of the 1930s. This article examines the general context of the enquiry, as well as the specific circumstances, under which it was conducted in both the United Kingdom and the sub-continent. Lothian’s investigation paid special attention to the means by which increased numbers from untouchable caste groups could be enfranchis…
Realism's Forms
Not to mince words: everyone seriously interested in Victorian fiction should read the newest books by Elaine Freedgood and Anna Kornbluh—and preferably read them together, as I've read them for this review. Worlds Enough and The Order of Forms mount sharp, polemical, hugely stimulating arguments about the basic categories, form and realism, that structure their topic. A side-by-side reading highlights radical differences between the two in their…
Insurance Status and Biological and Psychosocial Determinants of Cardiometabolic Risk Among Mexican-Origin U.S. Hispanic/Latino Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
Purpose: Hispanics/Latinos in the United States bear higher burden of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and associated complications compared with the general population. Health insurance coverage is also lower in this population. We examined the association of health insurance with biological and psychosocial determinants of cardiometabolic risk among U.S. Mexican-origin Hispanic/Latino adults with T2D. Methods: Participants were self-reported Hispanic/Lati…
Natural Histories of Form
Arguing that aesthetic preference generates the historical forms of human racial and gender difference in The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin offers an alternative account of aesthetic autonomy to the Kantian or idealist account. Darwin understands the aesthetic sense to be constitutive of scientific knowledge insofar as scientific knowledge entails the natural historian’s fine discrimination of formal differences and their dynamic interrelations …
The Mallah and Ram Charana in the United Provinces
During the 1920s and 1930s, Ram Charana, of the Mallah caste and a resident of Lucknow, led the campaign for his caste to secure a place in the plans for constitutional and electoral reform being drawn up by the colonial authorities. His objective was to ensure the inclusion of the caste within the administrative category of the Depressed Classes and subsequently as a Scheduled Caste even though it was labelled and stigmatised as a caste defined …
Human Forms
Lamarckian Historical Romance
This chapter addresses how the politics of the revolutionary era charged the intellectual debates and institutional rivalries that were agitating the emergent science of the forms of life, centered now in Paris. Arguing for the reform of knowledge as a necessary condition of political reform, scientific authors opposed to the Bourbon regime rallied around Lamarckism, and transformist natural history more broadly, throughout the 1820s. Jean-Baptis…
Human Forms
A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 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 fict…
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Burden and Cost of Diabetes for US Medicare Beneficiaries
Purpose: To examine the burden and cost of diabetes among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries. Methods: Medicare 5% File data for type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) consisting of 1,397,933 enrollees in fee-for-service without Medicare Advantage during the period 2012–2013 were analyzed by race and ethnicity. Results: Although non-Hispanic whites (nHWs) comprised most of this population (86%), prevalence of T1D and T2D was higher f…
Dalits and the Raj
The Jatavs of western UP during the 1930s fought a long campaign to be recognised as a separate caste. In this article, the progress and eventual success of that campaign are documented and described in detail for the first time. In addition, it is suggested that the Jatav efforts to establish a separate official identity cannot be fully understood within the framework provided by the notion of Sanskritisation. It is argued here that the Jatav en…
Achieving Health Equity by Normalizing Cardiac Care
Purpose: It is well known that minority patients, and particularly African Americans undergo lower rates of cardiac procedures than the white population, even when covered by equivalent insurance. Methods: We analyzed the rates of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and for intermediate coronary syndrome (ICS), and rates of transcatheter aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis in the 20…
Injection-related hepatitis C serosorting behaviors among people who inject drugs
Although previous research has focused on injection drug use behaviors in both urban and rural settings, few have drawn direct comparisons between adjacent rural and urban areas. Using data from the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance study as well as original data collected in a similar fashion, we compare the risk behaviors of people who inject drugs (PWID) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with those of PWID in nearby rural areas. Specifically, we ex…
Realism
R EALISM achieves critical mass in 1856, the year George Eliot turns to
Charles Darwin on the Aesthetic Evolution of Man
Scott's Shadow
Long-Term Worries after Colposcopy
Kidnapped
Classic fiction. Readers will love reading their favourite classics in this new Oxford world's classics series.
Dalits and politics in rural North India
In the last decade the Bahaujan Samaj Party has established a strong electoral presence in northern India. It has been particularly successful in Uttar Pradesh where it has participated in government three times in the 1990s. Although the party seeks to mobilise the support of the 'bahujan' - the non-high caste majority of the population - it is argued here, on the basis of aggregate and survey analysis, that it has been constrained by its excess…
Agricultural innovation and political change in north India
This article examines the basis of the success of the Lok Dal in electoral politics in Uttar Pradesh in relation to a wide range of indicators of agricultural innovation and change. It argues that the Lok Dal, through its political practice and electoral strategy, was able to create and sustain an electoral following across the state which subsumed many potentially divisive identities and interests and that the party is better understood as one w…
Party politics and the north Indian peasantry
In the last 20 years politics in the rural areas of north India has been transformed by the emergence of non-Congress parties with strong support among the prosperous strata of the peasantry. Studies of these developments have placed different emphases on the importance of class and caste factors, as well as drawing attention to the existence of blocs of potential support previously alienated from the Congress. In Uttar Pradesh (UP) the defection…
Dalits and the Raj
The Jatavs of western UP during the 1930s fought a long campaign to be recognised as a separate caste. In this article, the progress and eventual success of that campaign are documented and described in detail for the first time. In addition, it is suggested that the Jatav efforts to establish a separate official identity cannot be fully understood within the framework provided by the notion of Sanskritisation. It is argued here that the Jatav en…
Authenticity Effects
Research Article| January 01 2003 Authenticity Effects: The Work of Fiction in Romantic Scotland Ian Duncan Ian Duncan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (1): 93–116. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-1-93 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ian Duncan; Authenticity Effects: The Work of Fiction in Romantic Scotland. South A…
The Bhangi and the Chamar should be Called to the Councils of Empire’
The franchise enquiry led by Lord Lothian (Philip Kerr) was a central component in the Indian constitutional reform process of the 1930s. This article examines the general context of the enquiry, as well as the specific circumstances, under which it was conducted in both the United Kingdom and the sub-continent. Lothian’s investigation paid special attention to the means by which increased numbers from untouchable caste groups could be enfranchis…
The Mallah and Ram Charana in the United Provinces
During the 1920s and 1930s, Ram Charana, of the Mallah caste and a resident of Lucknow, led the campaign for his caste to secure a place in the plans for constitutional and electoral reform being drawn up by the colonial authorities. His objective was to ensure the inclusion of the caste within the administrative category of the Depressed Classes and subsequently as a Scheduled Caste even though it was labelled and stigmatised as a caste defined …
New Political Equations in North India
Research Article| October 01 1997 New Political Equations in North India: Mayawati, Mulayam, and Government Instability in Uttar Pradesh Ian Duncan Ian Duncan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1997) 37 (10): 979–996. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645617 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Too…
The politics of liberalisation in early post‐independence India
INTRODUCTION Interest in the ways in which the role of state intervention and regulation relates to economic performance in the countries of the south has grown enormously in the last decade as the potential and actual impact of measures of economic liberalisation have received more attention. Much interest has been devoted to India where the faltering attempts at liberalisatio n by the Rajiv Gandhi government in the mid-1980s produced few concre…
The Energy-Water Nexus in Texas
Understanding the nexus between energy and water -water used for energy and energy used for water -has become increasing important in a changing world. As growing populations demand more energy supplies and water resources, research aims to analyze the interconnectedness of these two resources. Our study sought to quantify the energy-water relationship in Texas, specifically the relationship between electricity generation and water resources as i…
Party politics and the north Indian peasantry
In the last 20 years politics in the rural areas of north India has been transformed by the emergence of non-Congress parties with strong support among the prosperous strata of the peasantry. Studies of these developments have placed different emphases on the importance of class and caste factors, as well as drawing attention to the existence of blocs of potential support previously alienated from the Congress. In Uttar Pradesh (UP) the defection…
The hero of the Waverley Novels
The hero of the Waverley Novels: With new essays on Scott." History of European Ideas, 18(3), pp. 460–461
North Britain, Inc
The politics of liberalisation in early post‐independence India
INTRODUCTION Interest in the ways in which the role of state intervention and regulation relates to economic performance in the countries of the south has grown enormously in the last decade as the potential and actual impact of measures of economic liberalisation have received more attention. Much interest has been devoted to India where the faltering attempts at liberalisatio n by the Rajiv Gandhi government in the mid-1980s produced few concre…
New Political Equations in North India
Research Article| October 01 1997 New Political Equations in North India: Mayawati, Mulayam, and Government Instability in Uttar Pradesh Ian Duncan Ian Duncan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1997) 37 (10): 979–996. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645617 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Too…
Agricultural innovation and political change in north India
This article examines the basis of the success of the Lok Dal in electoral politics in Uttar Pradesh in relation to a wide range of indicators of agricultural innovation and change. It argues that the Lok Dal, through its political practice and electoral strategy, was able to create and sustain an electoral following across the state which subsumed many potentially divisive identities and interests and that the party is better understood as one w…
The revival of the congress? India's mini‐general election November 1998
The results of elections for three state governments in India in November 1998 were widely interpreted as an indication of the revival in the fortunes of the Indian National Congress. In this article it is argued that the Congress was contesting in regions where it is at a relative advantage compared to much of the rest of India. The Congress was also assisted by a poor campaign by its major rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Congress took co…
Dalits and politics in rural North India
In the last decade the Bahaujan Samaj Party has established a strong electoral presence in northern India. It has been particularly successful in Uttar Pradesh where it has participated in government three times in the 1990s. Although the party seeks to mobilise the support of the 'bahujan' - the non-high caste majority of the population - it is argued here, on the basis of aggregate and survey analysis, that it has been constrained by its excess…
The Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of The Collected Works of James Hogg: Winter Evening Tales: Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of Scotland
"The Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of The Collected Works of James Hogg: Winter Evening Tales: Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of Scotland" published on by Edinburgh University Press.
The Bridal of Polmood
"The Bridal of Polmood" published on by null.
Authenticity Effects
Research Article| January 01 2003 Authenticity Effects: The Work of Fiction in Romantic Scotland Ian Duncan Ian Duncan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (1): 93–116. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-1-93 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ian Duncan; Authenticity Effects: The Work of Fiction in Romantic Scotland. South A…
Narrative authority in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron
This paper explores the complex nature of narrative authority in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron, set in an apartheid South Africa at a moment of extreme political crisis. At first glance, it seems as though Mrs. Curren’s ability to comment on and judge the events of the Emergency is constantly undermined, as Coetzee appears to deliberately place her in a marginalized position that cannot claim any real authority over the events she witnesses. However…
Science-based permitting of geological sequestration of CO2 in brine reservoirs in the U.S
Travel Writing 1700-1830
How is the mind agitated and bewildered, at being thus, as it were, placed on the borders of a new world!' (William Bartram) 'Thus you see, dear sister, the manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would have us believe.' (Mary Wortley Montagu) With widely varied motives - scientific curiosity, commerce, colonization, diplomacy, exploration, and tourism - British travellers fanned out to every corner of the world in the pe…
The Lost World
‘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 penetr…
Rob Roy
Travel writing, 1700-1830
Ivanhoe
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…
The English National Character
Ian Duncan, Victorian Studies, Vol. 50, No. 2, Papers and Responses from the Fifth Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, Held Jointly with the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada (Winter, 2008), pp. 297-299
The Energy-Water Nexus in Texas
Understanding the nexus between energy and water -water used for energy and energy used for water -has become increasing important in a changing world. As growing populations demand more energy supplies and water resources, research aims to analyze the interconnectedness of these two resources. Our study sought to quantify the energy-water relationship in Texas, specifically the relationship between electricity generation and water resources as i…
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 history, reception and reputation, his treatments of politics,…
Drought and the water–energy nexus in Texas
Texas experienced the most extreme drought on record in 2011 with up to 100 days of triple digit temperatures resulting in record electricity demand and historically low reservoir levels. We quantified water and electricity demand and supply for each power plant during the drought relative to 2010 (baseline). Drought raised electricity demands/generation by 6%, increasing water demands/consumption for electricity by 9%. Reductions in monitored re…
Kidnapped
Classic fiction. Readers will love reading their favourite classics in this new Oxford world's classics series.
George Eliot's Science Fiction
George Eliot's recourse to comparative mythology and biology in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda engages a conjectural history of symbolic language shared by the Victorian human and natural sciences. Troubling the formation of scientific knowledge as a progression from figural to literal usage, Eliot's novels activate an oscillation between registers, in which linguistic events of metaphor become narrative events of organic metamorphosis
Long-Term Worries after Colposcopy
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