The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Oxford World's Classics)
by James Hogg
from Oxford University Press, USA
A new edition of the “greatest novel of Scotland”
The Romantic notion of the divided self is nowhere more powerfully conceived than in James HoggÂ’s masterpiece, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner<./I>. An account of a man haunted by the Devil in the form of his own evil double, it precedes DostoyevskyÂ’s great dramas of sin, self-accusation, and damnation by half a century.
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (EasyRead Large Edition)
by James Hogg
from ReadHowYouWant
Set in eighteenth century Edinburgh, this is a brilliant tale of mystery and evil. The work chronicled the life of a man chosen by god and corrupted due to his boundless power. The work gives an amazing psychological analysis of human mind and explains the causes and consequences of corruption. This EasyRead Large Edition has been optimized for readers who prefer a standard 16pt large type.
Queen Hynde
by James Hogg
from Edinburgh University Press
Queen Hynde, Hogg's favorite among his poems has been described as an alternative version of Macpherson's Ossian poem Fingal,with comedy and religion added. Saint Columba, a key figure in the religious history of Scotland, is one of the main characters.
Jacobite Relics Volume I
by James Hogg
from Edinburgh University Press
James Hogg's Jacobite Relics--originally commissioned by the Highland Society of London in 1817--is an important addition to The Collected Works of James Hogg. It created a canon for the Jacobite song which had an enormous influence on subsequent collections, and was of great importance in defining the relationship between the Scottish song tradition and its Romantic editors and collectors. From the first publication of the Relics in 1819, there has been speculation about how many of them were authored or at least substantially altered by Hogg. Murray Pittock has conducted extensive research in this area since 1987, and has identified several previously unknown sources from which Hogg would have worked as he developed his collection. The introduction to volume one includes the crucial issue of Hogg's relationship to the Jacobite song tradition, and the place of the Relics within Hogg's career and personal context, facilitating further interpretations of Hogg's range of creative strategies. Both volumes one and two provide considerable annotation to accurately communicate the context of the songs and Hogg's relationship to the textuality of Jacobite culture. Volume one also includes a bibliography and glossary. The introduction to volume two deals with the genesis of the text and Hogg's relationship with the Highland Society.
The Spy
by James Hogg
from Edinburgh University Press
Hogg's extremely rare periodical of 1810-11 shows him reacting to the writers, personalities and locales of Scotland's capital city after his move to Edinburgh from Ettrick and his career change from shepherd and farmer to professional author. His characteristically astute and idiosyncratic vision reveals a rather different city from that of Walter Scott and Francis Jeffrey, and his band of contributors from another audience for his work than the middle class Tories associated with the later Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. The Spy includes early versions of some of Hogg's best-known poetry and prose besides a wealth of fascinating lesser-known material. This is the first edition of The Spy since the original edition of 1810-11 was published, and offers a carefully constructed text, full of annotation, notes on Hogg's contributors to his papers, and a history of its making. It represents an advance in our knowledge both of Hogg's early writing career and of the city he encountered early in the nineteenth century.
The Three Perils of Man: War, Women and Witchcraft (Canongate Classics)
by James Hogg
from Canongate Books
The Magical Mermaids a sparkling jigsaw book (Sparkling Jigsaw Book)
by James Hogg
from Tide Mill Press
Altrive Tales (Stirling/South Carolina Edition of James Hogg)
by James Hogg
from Edinburgh University Press
Review of the hardback edition:
"This is a fascinating volume, full of surprises, challenges and confirmationsÂ… Gillian Hughes's editorial activities are exemplary: the textual decisions and apparatus inspire confidence and assent, and the genesis of the Tales is pieced together from manuscript evidence in an introduction which is a serious piece of scholarly detective work in its own rightÂ… [S]he offers finely-observed, stimulating exegesis which will encourage further readings, and the explanatory notes offer some wonderfully suggestive analogies. Altogether, the volume is a revelation."& madash; Studies in Hogg and his World
"I like to write about myself: in fact, there are few things I like betterÂ…'" so confesses Hogg with pawky self-mocking humour in Altrive Tales.
This collection opens with Hogg's own story of how a ragged servant-lad remade himself as a respected professional writer, the associate of Byron, Scott, Southey, Wordsworth and Galt. Hogg's frank and humorous "Memoir of the Author's Life" is widely recognised as a classic of Romantic autobiography and an important record of early nineteenth-century Scottish culture.
The themes of the "Memoir" continue in the tales that follow. "The Adventures of Captain John Lochy" is a fast-paced historical fiction, the autobiography of a social outcast adrift in Scotland, Russia, the Netherlands, and Sweden. "The Pongos" (an early version of the Tarzan story) takes a look at Scottish involvement in the British empire in a comic parody of Enlightenment notions about the nature of man and of society. "Marion's Jock" is a virtuoso exercise in Scots and in Hogg's ability to communicate the peasant lifestyle of his native Scottish Borders.
This new edition, thoughtfully introduced, extensively annotated and featuring a reading list and Hogg chronology, presents Altrive Tales as a major achievement by one of Scotland's finest storytellers.
A Queer Book (The Collected Works of James Hogg)
by James Hogg
from Edinburgh University Press
At first glance this is a witty and comical collection of poems. But the eccentric nature of many of the poems nevertheless belies the often serious historical and moral issues contained within. As close to Hogg's final copy as possible, this collection includes many poems which have never been studied critically before. "The 1994 Queer Book is much more than a reprint of the 1832 text... Hogg boasted to William Blackwood 'it will be a grand book for thae Englishers for they winna understand a word of it'." Journal of James Hogg Society
Memoir of Burns
Written in 1832 but published only in 1836, after Hogg's death, Memoir of Burns was the culmination of Hogg's lifelong interest in Burns's poetry and life. Among the most neglected of his writings, this volume has never before been republished separately from the multi-volume edition of Burns for which it was written, Volumes 1-4 of the Hogg-Motherwell Works of Robert Burns. This is the first modern editorial treatment of the work.
*The only scholarly edition that documents Hogg's use of his sources
*Contains the comments Hogg made on individual Burns poems and songs in the annotations to the Works volumes
*Draws on hitherto-unused manuscript material to clarify the relation between Hogg and Motherwell in the editing of the Works.
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