The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg / / Ian Duncan, Douglas Mack.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Duncan, Ian,; Mack, Douglas,
• MitwirkendeR: Alker, Sharon,; Bold, Valentina,; Duncan, Ian,; Fielding, Penny,; Garside, Peter,; Gilbert, Suzanne,; Groot, H. B. de,; Hughes, Gillian,; Mack, Douglas S.,; McCracken-Flesher, Caroline,; McCue, Kirsteen,; Mergenthal, Silvia,; Nelson, Holly Faith,; O’Halloran, Meiko,; Plotz, John,; Tulloch, Graham,; Wilson, Fiona,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature : ECSL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

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 SinnerThe 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Brief Biography of James Hogg -- Introduction: Hogg and his Worlds -- CHAPTER ONE Hogg, Ettrick, and Oral Tradition -- CHAPTER TWO Hogg and the Book Trade -- CHAPTER THREE Magazines, Annuals, and the Press -- CHAPTER FOUR Hogg’s Reception and Reputation -- CHAPTER FIVE Hogg and the Highlands -- CHAPTER SIX Hogg and Working-class Writing -- CHAPTER SEVEN Hogg’s Politics and the Presbyterian Tradition -- CHAPTER EIGHT Hogg and Nationality -- CHAPTER NINE Hogg, Gender, and Sexuality -- CHAPTER TEN Hogg and Music -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Hogg as Poet -- CHAPTER TWELVE Hogg and the Theatre -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Hogg and the Short Story -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Hogg and the Novel -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Approaches -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Afterlives -- Endnotes -- Further Reading -- Notes on Contributors -- Index