A guide devoted to its subject, the book draws on recent breakthroughs in research on Hogg to illuminate the urgent debates and fruitful contexts that helped to shape his writings. Essays written by an international team of scholars provide an indispensable guide to Hogg's career, and the diverse literary forms in which he wrote.
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The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg
Edited by Ian Duncan and Douglas S. Mack
The first comprehensive guide to the works and worlds of controversial Scottish Romantic author James Hogg.
James Hogg (1770-1835) is increasingly recognised as a major Scottish author and as 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:
* The only work of its kind available, or likely to be available, for the foreseeable future
* An essential port of entry to the study of Hogg for scholars, students and general
readers
* Provides 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/
* Contributions are written by an international team of scholars, including nearly all the major figures in Hogg studies
Ian Duncan is Florence Green Bixby Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and a General Editor of the Collected Works of James Hogg. His books include /Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh/ (2007) and editions of fiction by Scott and Hogg, including /Winter Evening Tales/ and /Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner/.
The late Douglas S. Mack was formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling. The founding General Editor of the Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hog
