{"product_id":"spy-8","title":"Spy","description":"Hogg’s extremely rare periodical of 1810-11 shows him reacting to the writers, personalities, and locales of Scotland’s capital city after his move to Edinburgh from Ettrick and his career-change from shepherd and farmer to professional author. His characteristically astute and idiosyncratic vision reveals a rather different city from that of Walter Scott and Francis Jeffrey, and his band of contributors form another audience for his work than the middle-class Tories associated with the later Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. The Spy includes early versions of some of Hogg’s best-known poetry and prose besides a wealth of fascinating lesser-known material.This is the first edition of The Spy since the original edition of 1810-11 was published, and offers a carefully corrected text, full annotation, notes on Hogg’s contributors to his paper, and a history of its making.  It represents an advance in our knowledge both of Hogg’s early writing career and of the city he encountered early in the nineteenth century.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54246758613336,"sku":"9780748614172","price":186.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780748614172_745f4ed3-f53a-40c7-900a-0ef75e7b91ef.jpg?v=1780113683","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/spy-8","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}