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Authors: Sir Walter Scott
ISBN-13: 9780217227520, ISBN-10: 021722752X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: General Books LLC
Date Published: August 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Ian Duncan is Associate Professor of English at Yale University.
Ivanhoe was the first of Scott's novels to take place in the middle ages but it is far from being the fantastic, medievalist romance associated (in the critical imagination) with a visionary Britain that never was. This is the first novel in English to deal seriously with issues of race. At the same time, it provides an exciting read to a contemporary audience.