Collected Letters of James Hogg. Volume 1, : 1800-1819 / James Hogg ; editors, Gillian Hughes [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogg, James, 1770-1835, author.

Contributor:

Hughes, Gillian, editor.

Series:

The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Letters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (490 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2005.

Summary:

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 FeaturesThe first ever edition of Hogg's letters to be publishedIncludes many letters never previously publishedFeatures Hogg's correspondence with figures such as Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron and Sir Robert Peel

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

The Letters of James Hogg

TO 1802

TO 1805

FOR 1806

TO 1808

TO 1810

TO 1812

FOR 1813

FOR 1814

FOR 1815

FOR 1816

FOR 1817

FOR 1818

FOR 1819

Appendix: Notes on Correspondents

Note on the Texts

Glossary

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 16, 2022).

ISBN:

1-4744-3384-7

OCLC:

1322125829