Winter Evening Tales

AvJames Hogg,Ian Duncan

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg’s most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Its 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 two brilliant autobiographical novellas, The Renowned Adventures of Basil Lee and Love Adventures of Mr George Cochrane.This paperback edition takes account of newly-discovered information about An Old Soldier’s Tale and The Long Pack. A critical introduction, explanatory notes, reading list and Hogg chronology are provided to assist the reader in appreciating Hogg’s entertaining and challenging tale collection to the full.

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-12-13
Mått:138 x 216 x 48 mm
Vikt:732 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg
Antal sidor:648
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748620869

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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. Ian Duncan studied at King's College, Cambridge, and Yale University; he is Florence Green Boxby Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel (1992), Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (2007), and editions of works by Walter Scott and James Hogg. He is a General Editor of the Collected Works of James Hogg.

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Hogg must be the most unavailable of the major Scottish writers in the first half of the nineteenth century. The new edition, therefore, performs a crucial function. Moreover Winter Evening Tales is going to be one of the most desirable volumes, on grounds of sheer readability and aesthetic merit. For students of Hogg, of Scottish literature, of romanticism, and of the tale collection as a form, it counts as “essential reading”.