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Gathers together Hogg's writing for magazines beyond Scotland
Beginning with the short story 'The Long Pack', first published in a London miscellany in 1809, and concluding with 'The Rose of Plora', a poem printed posthumously in a New York eclectic magazine in 1841, the collection spans the full period of Hogg's life as a professional writer. Several pieces are reprinted in this book for the first time.
A detailed introduction explores Hogg's complex relationship to the periodicals market, while an extensive Appendix records the many hundreds of reprints of his work in newspapers and magazines around the world. Each text is introduced and fully annotated, and its publication history accounted for. A glossary aids readers unfamiliar with the Scots language.
Adrian Hunter is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling.
List of contents
Introduction; 1809; The Long Pack; 1814; A Night Piece; 1817; birth-Day of Mr Pitt; 1825; John Paterson's Mare; Scenes of Other Worlds. No. 1; King William and the Duke of Cumberland; 1827; The True Art of Reviewing; 1829; The banshee; 1831; bonny Mary Gray; Where Am I Gaun?; Come Down the brae Donald. A Jacobite Song; My brother; Cuddy Clew; A Pastoral; ballad of the Lord Maxwell; 1832; A Scottish ballad; A Tale of an Old Highlander; A Good Story of a Glasgow Tailor; O Kitty Dinna Frown on Me; Review of Original Songs by Robert Gilfillan; Some Terrible Letters from Scotland. Communicated by the Ettrick Shepherd; Willie Wastle and His Dog Trap; 1834; Historical ballads - No. I; The Queen of France and James IV; Historical ballads - No. I; "The White Rose of Scotland"; The Choice; and the Story of the Minister's Annie; 1835; bruce and the Spider; Tales of Fathers and Daughters; Tales of Fathers and Daughters No 2 [manuscript version]; 1841; The Rose of Plora; Appendix: Reprintings of Hogg's Works Overseas; Textual and Explanatory Notes; Glossary.
About the author
James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. He is best known for his novel
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.Adrian Hunter is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling. He is author of The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English (2007), and of several articles and chapters on British and North American short fiction. He is currently editing a volume of James Hogg's contributions to international periodicals for the definitive Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of Hogg's work, also published by Edinburgh University Press.Barbara Leonardi earned her AHRC-funded PhD from the University of Stirling, winning the 2013 Ross Roy Medal for the best doctoral thesis in Scottish literature. From 2014-17, she served as Research Assistant on the AHRC-funded project "James Hogg: Contributions to International Periodicals." She specialises in the 19th-century periodical press; the Romantic novel; gender, class, and race in the long 19th-century; and pragmatic linguistics applied to literature. She has published on Hogg, Walter Scott and Mary Wollstonecraft; is a reviewer for The Year's Work in English Studies; and edited Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond (Palgrave, 2018).
Summary
Gathers together Hogg's writing for magazines beyond Scotland with several pieces are reprinted in this book for the first time.
