| The Collected Letters of James Hogg, Volume 1, 1800-1819 Contributor(s): Mack, Douglas S., Hogg, James (Author), Hughes, Gillian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0748616713 ISBN-13: 9780748616718 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2005 Annotation: The initial volume, of the first collected edition of Hogg's letters (to be completed in three volumes), showcases his talent for letter writing. Many of the letters have been published only in part or have never been published before. They vividly reflect Hogg's varied social experience and shed light on his own writings and those of his contemporaries. His famous correspondents were Scott, Byron, and Southey, antiquarians such as Robert Surtees, politicians such as Sir Robert Peel, and editors and publishers such as John Murray, William Blackwood, and Robert Chambers. Additionally there are letters to shepherds, farmers, aristocrats, musicians, young ladies, and bluestockings. The author first appears in this volume in 1800 as a young shepherd with literary ambitions. Later becoming the famous author of "The Queen's Wake" (1813) and a key supporter of the early "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" (1817). Among the final letters are tender but idiosyncratic love-letters to the Dumfriesshire girl he married in 1820 at the mature age of forty-nine. Hogg's entertaining and informative letters are supplemented by detailed annotation and a full editorial apparatus-including biographical notes on his chief correspondents and a concise overview of corresponding phase of his life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Collections | Letters |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Collected Works of James Hogg |
| Physical Information: 1.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (2.15 lbs) 490 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hogg was a superb letter-writer, and this is the initial volume of the first collected edition of his letters (to be completed in three volumes). Many of the letters have never been published before, or published only in part. They vividly reflect Hogg's varied social experience and shed new light on his own writings and those of his contemporaries. Among his famous correspondents were writers such as Scott, Byron, and Southey, antiquarians such as Robert Surtees, politicians such as Sir Robert Peel, and editors and publishers such as John Murray, William Blackwood, and Robert Chambers. But there are also letters to shepherds, farmers, aristocrats, musicians, young ladies, and bluestockings. Hogg first appears in this volume in 1800 as a young shepherd with literary ambitions, and becomes the famous author of The Queen's Wake (1813) and a key supporter of the early Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1817). Among the final letters it contains are some tender if idiosyncratic love-letters to the Dumfriesshire girl he married in 1820 at the mature age of forty-nine. Hogg's entertaining and informative letters are supplemented by detailed annotation and a full editorial apparatus, including biographical notes on his chief correspondents and a concise overview of this phase of his life.This edition of Hogg's Letters has its roots in the late 1970s and 1980s, when the four founder members of the James Hogg Society (Gillian Hughes, Douglas Mack, Robin MacLachlan, and Elaine Petrie) began work on tracing and transcribing Hogg's surviving letters. The major tasks of completing this work and preparing a full-scale edition of Hogg's Letters were subsequently passed to Gillian Hughes, who is now bringing this important research project to fruition.Key Features: * The first ever edition of Hogg's letters to be published* Includes many letters never previously published* Features Hogg's correspondence with figures such as Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron and |