Contributions to Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country

James Hogg author Megan Coyer editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:31st Jul '25

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Contributions to Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country cover

In the final years of James Hogg’s life, Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country became the most important outlet for his shorter writings, usurping the previous centrality of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. This volume collects for the first time his many and various contributions to the magazine and presents them in a reliable scholarly form, complete with a wide-ranging introduction, explanatory notes, appendices and glossary. Building on other volumes in The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition, Contributions to Fraser’s Magazine highlights Hogg’s expansion into the London literary marketplace and his reception as a Scottish author south of the Tweed, as well as the beginnings of his posthumous memorialisation.

James Hogg clearly enjoyed being a ‘Fraserian’. In that ‘racy and spunky Magazine’ he was playful, tender, funny, political and daring. Megan Coyer’s expert editing and enlightening annotations bring new Hoggian treasures to light. This fine edition illuminates the literary culture of that fascinating transitional decade, the 1830s. -- David Stewart, Northumbria University

ISBN: 9781474426527

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576 pages