Hogg, James 1770-1835

The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner by James Hogg ( Book )
147 editions published between 1824 and 2010 in 7 languages and held by 1,600 libraries worldwide
Presents a novel about religious fanaticism, murder, and madness featuring Robert Wringham, a fanatic who believes he is free from the norms of morality, and together with his friend, set about to settle scores with old enemies.

Anecdotes of Scott Anecdotes of Sir W. Scott and Familiar anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott by James Hogg ( Book )
75 editions published between 1834 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,162 libraries worldwide

Queen Hynde by James Hogg ( Book )
5 editions published between 1997 and 1998 in English and held by 1,030 libraries worldwide
Queen Hynde (1824) is James Hogg's most ambitious poem. Concelved as an epic, it takes as its starting point the myth of Scottish national origins to be found in James Macpherson's Ossian poems. However, Hogg's epic radically modifies the melancholy solemnities and heroic paganism of Macpherson's Ossianic narratives. Capable of being utterly hilarious, especially when Wicked Wene is on stage, Queen Hynde is Ossian with jokes. In and through its hilarity, however, Hogg's epic has serious purposes in mind. Its picture of the ancient Scottish past has much in common with stories of King Arthur and Camelot. In addition, Hogg's poem offers a Christianised version of Macpherson's heroic myth of the roots of the Scottish nation. St. Columba, a key figure in the conversion of Scotland to Christianity, is one of the central characters in Hogg's recasting of the Ossianic material; and Queen Hynde aspires to emulate Paradise Lost as a Christian epic. It does so by valorising Columba's values of love and forgiveness, as they replace the values of an old pagan would of heroic violence.

A series of lay sermons on good principles and good breeding by James Hogg ( Book )
12 editions published between 1834 and 1997 in English and held by 832 libraries worldwide
Lay Sermons offers, playfully, a series of lay sermons on good principles and good breeding: the very last thing that one would expect to come from the pen of the famous Ettrick Shepherd of Blackwood's. But a significant part of the joke is that the Shepherd, most unexpectedly, provides lay sermons that combine into a series of wise meditations on life and on literature. This important text by a major Scottish writer has long been neglected and undervalued, partly because it has not been easily accessible. However, recent critics such as Robert Kiely, David Groves and Silvia Mergenthal have pointed to the interest and influence of Hogg's Lay Sermons; and this new edition by Gillian Hughes will make the book readily available for the first time since the 1830s.

Tales of the Wars of Montrose by James Hogg ( Book )
14 editions published between 1835 and 2002 in English and held by 646 libraries worldwide
In Tales of the Wars of Montrose Hogg continues the examination of Scotland's past he began in The Brownie of Bodsbeck, and continued in The Three Perils of Woman and Confessions of a Justified Sinner; in doing so he also reflects upon the attempts of Scott and Galt to deal with Scottish history. Using different narrators and different moods in each of the five tales that compose the work Hogg leads the reader into (and eventually out of) a period of anarchy and confusion in his native country. This new edition is the first to reflect Hogg's true intentions for the work, being formed on his own plan and following the text of his surviving manuscripts. The work thus revealed is a major achievement of final years, and a splendid portrait of Scottish society in a state of civil war.

Noctes ambrosianæ by John Wilson ( Book )
43 editions published between 1843 and 1963 in English and Latin and held by 457 libraries worldwide

The three perils of man; war, women and witchcraft by James Hogg ( Book )
9 editions published between 1822 and 2009 in English and held by 391 libraries worldwide

Selected poems [of] James Hogg by James Hogg ( Book )
3 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 358 libraries worldwide

The queen's wake a legendary poem by James Hogg ( Book )
59 editions published between 1813 and 2004 in English and German and held by 348 libraries worldwide

The three perils of woman, or, Love, leasing, and jealousy : a series of domestic Scottish tales by James Hogg ( Book )
12 editions published between 1823 and 2002 in English and held by 273 libraries worldwide
The Three Perils of Woman is essentially a combination of two stories on similar themes, one set in the Highlands following the Battle of Culloden and the other in Hogg's Edinburgh. Daring in its narrative technique, its first readers were confused by the novel's juxtaposition of the comic and the horrific as Hogg explored the relationship between fictional life, as portrayed in, say, the works of Walter Scott, and the realities of nineteenth-century Scotland. Daring in its subject matter, they were also shocked by its treatment of such delicate matters as prostitution and venereal disease. Last printed in any form in the 1820s, this new edition reveals the exceptional quality of The Three Perils of Woman and puts it squarely back into the mainstream of Scottish literature.