This now-famous book was given a hostile reception when it first appeared in 1824. It was not reprinted until the late 1830s, when a heavily bowdlerised version was included in a posthumous edition of Hogg's collected Tales and Sketches published by Blackie & Son of Glasgow. Thereafter Confessions of a Justified Sinner attracted little interest until the 1890s, when the unbowdlerised text was printed for the first time since the 1820s. However, the high reputation of Hogg's novel did not fully begin to establish itself until 1947, when a warmly enthusiastic Introduction by Andre Gide appeared in a new edition of the unbowdlerised text. He went on to record how he had read 'this astounding book [ ] with a stupefaction and admiration that increased at every page'. Many readers have subsequently shared Gide's enthusiasm, and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is now widely recognised as one of the outstanding British novels of the Romantic era. It has also been acclaimed as one of the defining texts of Scotland, with Iain Crichton Smith recently applauding 'a towering Scottish novel, one of the very greatest of all Scottish books'.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-06-30
Mått:138 x 216 x 28 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
Medarbetare:Ian Campbell
ISBN:9781399543606

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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 Campbell is Professor of Scottish and Victorian Literature at the University of Edinburgh and editor of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's The Speak of the Mearns and Spartacus. Peter Garside was educated at Cambridge and Harvard Universities and taught English Literature for more than thirty years at Cardiff University, where he became Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research. Subsequently he was appointed Professor of Bibliography and Textual Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he is now a Professorial Fellow. He was one of the general editors of the bibliographical survey The English Novel 1770-1829 (2000) and has since co-edited the critical collection English and British Fiction 1750-1820 (2015). More recent work includes editions of Walter Scott’s Shorter Poems (2020) and J. G. Lockhart’s Peter’s Letters to His Kinsfolk (2 volumes, 2022).

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This is the most reliable text we have, and until the manuscript is found it is the best text we shall ever have… Peter Garside's annotation is magnificent: it is full, it helps the reader, and it illuminates the text…This truly is a great novel, and at last we have an edition worthy of it.

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IntroductionSelect BibliographyChronology by Gillian HughesThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified SinnerAfterword by Ian CampbellNote on the TextHistorical and Geographical NoteNotesGlossaryMaps

James Hogg, Kirsteen McCue

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