Author(s): Ian Duncan (Author, Editor), Douglas S. Mack (Author, Editor)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date: 11 May 2012
Language: English
Print length: 200 pages
ISBN-10: 9780748641246
ISBN-13: 0748641246
Book Description
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.
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AUTHOR-APPROVED COVER COPY [Add Series blurb as per series style] 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
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Ian Duncan studied at King’s College, Cambridge, and Yale University; he is Florence Green Boxby Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel (1992), Scott’s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (2007), and editions of works by Walter Scott and James Hogg. He is a General Editor of the Collected Works of James Hogg. The late Douglas S. Mack was formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling.
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