The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg
Ian Duncan editor Douglas S Mack editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:11th May '12
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
The book is beautifully produced [...]. No doubt those who edited and contributed to this magnificient book, and have already done so much to ensure that Hogg is no longer a second-tier author. -- Antony Hasler * Studies in Hogg and his World: Number 23, 2013 *
This Companion covers [Hogg’s] entire career, and…should do much to broaden awareness of what a complex, fascinating writer Hogg was…[it] sent me back to Hogg with fresh eyes and a sharper mind -- Stuart Kelly * The Scotsman *
With this volume, edited by the late Douglas Mack (whose work launched the great Hogg edition) and Ian Duncan, the firepower of the critics ensures that Hogg is given a thorough re-evaluation, with critial guidance, with further reading, and with (in Gillian Hughes' elegant coda) a quick tour of the effect Hogg has had on recent Scottish writing. -- Ian Campbell * University of Edinburgh Journal, XLV, No 4 *
With this volume, edited by the late Douglas Mack (whose work launched the great Hogg edition) and Ian Duncan, the firepower of the critics ensures that Hogg is given a thorough re-evaluation, with critial guidance, with further reading, and with (in Gillian Hughes' elegant coda) a quick tour of the effect Hogg has had on recent Scottish writing -- Ian Campbell * University of Edinburgh Journal, XLV, No 4 *
ISBN: 9780748641246
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 451g
200 pages