James Hogg and British Romanticism

Meiko O'Halloran is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She has published various articles and essays on aspects of Scottish and British Romanticism.

“James Hogg and British Romanticism makes an original and significant contribution to the ongoing conversation on how Hogg’s works engage with and diverge from the artistic vision and practices of fellow Romantics. … O’Halloran’s pioneering and perceptive study is essential reading for those working on the life and writings of James Hogg and in the fields of Scottish Romanticism, British Romanticism, literary history, and reader response theory.” (Holly Faith Nelson, The BARS Review, Issue 49, 2017)

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Reclaiming Hogg's Place in British Romanticism 1. Hogg's Self-Positioning: The Poetic Mirror and the Literary Marketplace 2. Hogg's Eighteenth-Century Inheritance: The Queen's Wake, National Epic, and Imagined Ancestries 3. By Accident and Design: Burns, Shakespeare, and Hogg's Kaleidoscopic Techniques, from the Theatre and The Poetic Mirror to Queen Hynde 4. Exploding Authority and Inheritance: Reading the Confessions of a Justified Sinner as a Kaleidoscopic Novel 5. Imploding the Nation: Aesthetic Conflict in Tales of the Wars of Montrose Conclusion: Expanding the Range of Romanticism Notes Select Bibliography Index