The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg

Herausgeber: Duncan, Ian; S Mack, Douglas

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 159mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 323g
• ISBN-13: 9780748641239
• ISBN-10: 0748641238
• Artikelnr.: 32904614

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Series Editors' Preface
Brief Biography of James Hogg - Ian Duncan
Introduction: Hogg and his Worlds - Ian Duncan
1. Hogg, Ettrick, and Oral Tradition - Valentina Bold and Suzanne Gilbert
2. Hogg and the Book Trade - Peter Garside
3. Magazines, Annuals and the Press - Gillian Hughes
4. Hogg's Reception and Reputation - Suzanne Gilbert
5. Hogg and the Highlands - Hans de Groot
6. Hogg and Working-Class Writing - Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson
7. Politics and the Presbyterian Tradition - Douglas S. Mack
8. Hogg and Nationality - Caroline McCracken-Flesher
9. Hogg, Gender, and Sexuality - Silvia Mergenthal
10. Hogg and Music - Kirsteen McCue
11. Hogg as Poet - Fiona Wilson
12. Hogg and the Theatre - Meiko O'Halloran
13. Hogg and the Short Story - John Plotz
14. Hogg and the Novel - Graham Tulloch
15. Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Approaches - Penny Fielding
16. Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Afterlives - Gillian Hughes
Endnotes
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.