Anecdotes of Scott (The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg) - Softcover

Hogg, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748620850 ISBN 13: 9780748620852

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2004

Synopsis

After Scott’s death in 1832 James Hogg wrote an affectionate but frank account of their long friendship. Scott’s son-in-law and official biographer, John Gibson Lockhart, declared himself to be filled with ‘utter disgust and loathing’ at the ‘beastly and abominable things’ he found it to contain.This edition includes both the original version, written as a contribution to a Scott biography planned by a young London friend of Hogg’s, and a revised version created subsequently for an American market. Those with an interest in Romantic biography and autobiography will be particularly fascinated by these lively, readable, idiosyncratic and disconcerting texts.A wealth of information is provided in the paperback edition of this volume, which also includes a useful Hogg chronology and reading list.

About this title

About the Authors

James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. He is best known for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

The late Jill Rubenstein was Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, and the editor of James Hogg's Anecdotes of Scott among other scholarly works relating to Scott, Hogg, and their contemporaries.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748620850
• ISBN 13: 9780748620852
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Rubenstein J H