A01=Gillian Hughes
Author_Gillian Hughes
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Literary Studies
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- ISBN 9780748616398
- Weight: 752g
- Publication Date: 06 Jul 2007
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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James Hogg’s life-story is one of extraordinary transitions and in his own lifetime he was best known as a heaven-inspired and naive Scottish rustic who featured as the boozing buffoon of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. In his own fascinating Memoir this notoriously open-hearted man was curiously reticent about certain passages in his life. He was a man of apparent contradictions: a partisan Tory with Radical friends; an upholder of oral tradition who eagerly embraced every new development in early nineteenth-century print culture; a man who wrote against biographical intrusions yet in his own life writing, stories and poems emphasised his persona and origins as the Ettrick Shepherd. His formidable intelligence and drive were seldom acknowledged, and his most challenging work disturbed conventional readerly preconceptions.Key Features:*Documents a life from ragged boy cowherd to famous author.*Gives due weight to the neglected parts of Hogg’s story for the first time.*Draws extensively on Hogg’s correspondence and a rich archive of documentary material.
Gillian Hughes, Independent Scholar, has been a General Editor of the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg, and is currently an advisory editor for the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry and for the New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. She has published critical editions of works by each of these writers, and also a biography of James Hogg.
