Winter Evening Tales / James Hogg and Ian Duncan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogg, James, 1770-1835, author.

Duncan, Ian, 1955- author.

Series:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Country life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlvi, 588 pages).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2002.

Summary:

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748620869);Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Exhibiting the most complex genesis of any of Hogg's works, it is the outstanding example of a 'national' genre pioneered by him - the miscellaneous collection of popular and traditional narratives. Hogg's experimental medley of novellas, tales, poems and sketches posed a lively alternative to the dominant form of the historical novel established by Walter Scott. The collection includes terse masterpieces of mystery and the uncanny, virtuoso improvisations on folktale themes, and - the highlights of the edition - two brilliant autobiographical novellas, The Renowned Adventures of Basil Lee and Love Adventures of Mr George Cochrane.Reprinted in incomplete and unreliable texts in Victorian editions of Hogg's works, Winter Evening Tales fell into almost total obscurity after the author's death. The Stirling/ South Carolina Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg is delighted to republish this key work in Hogg's career in its entirety for the first time since the early nineteenth century."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Hogg Rediscovered A New Edition of a Major Writer

General Editors’ Acknowledgements

Volume Editor’s Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

Research Additions

Select Bibliography

Chronology of James Hogg

Winter Evening Tales

The Renowned Adventures of Basil Lee

Adam Bell

Duncan Campbell

An Old Soldier's Tale

Highland Adventures

Halbert of Lyne

The Long Pack

A Peasant's Funeral

Dreadful Story of Macpherson

Story of Two Highlanders

Maria’s Tale, written by herself

Singular Dream, from a Correspondent

Love Adventures of Mr George Cochrane

Country Dreams and Apparitions No. I. John Gray o’ Middleholm

The Bridal of Polmood

King Gregory

The Shepherd's Calendar

Country Dreams and Apparitions

Appendix: Hogg’s Manuscript of ‘The Long Pack’

Note on the Text

Emendation List

Hyphenation List

Notes

Glossary

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (de Gruyter, viewed November 28, 2022).

ISBN:

9781474433822

1474433820

OCLC:

1322124764