The Shepherd's Calendar (The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg) - Softcover

Hogg, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748663169 ISBN 13: 9780748663163

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2002

Synopsis

James Hogg is one of the acknowledged masters of the short story. Some of his best stories appeared in The Shepherd’s Calendar, a work of the 1820s in which he sets out to re-create on paper the manner and the content of the traditional oral storytelling of Ettrick Forest, the remote and mountainous sheep-farming district in which he grew up. Like Hogg’s masterpiece The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, several of the stories from The Shepherd’s Calendar deal disturbingly and hauntingly with the supernatural, and explore psychological depths with a remarkable insight and intensity. The Shepherd’s Calendar also draws on Hogg’s experiences as a young shepherd in the 1790s as it produces a convincing and very human picture of the dangers, the pleasures, and the tensions of the lives of the rural poor in Scotland in the years that followed the French Revolution. This paperback is based on the acclaimed hardback edition of The Shepherd’s Calendar for the Stirling / South Carolina Collected Works of James Hogg (Edinburgh University Press, 1995).

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 Douglas S. Mack was formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748663169
• ISBN 13: 9780748663163
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Mack Douglas S.