Böcker av James Hogg

The first edition of The Spy since its original publication in 1810-11 includes early versions of some of Hogg's best-known poetry and prose besides a wealth of fascinating and lesser-known material.

Heroic, radical and at times hilarious, Queen Hynde is Ossian with jokes; but Hogg's epic has serious purposes in mind.

Like other well-known writers of the time, Hogg was a contributor to the annuals, and this book brings together all the Hogg texts that were either written for, or first published in, annuals and gift-books.

Based on Hogg's 1831 collection entitled Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd, this critical edition provides the original text as well as the history of its genesis.

Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs provides access to the relevant material in the various musical collections to which Hogg refers in his 1831 head notes, thus allowing the new readers of the 21st century to see in facsimile what Hogg himself saw.

This book presents both the first and fifth edition of the poem.

Altrive Tales was carefully prepared by Hogg in 1832 as the opening volume in a planned twelve-volume collected prose fiction series, intended as the culmination of his career as a storyteller.

Lay Sermons offers, playfully, a series of lay sermons on good principles and good breeding - the last thing that one would expect from the pen of Blackwood's Ettrick Shepherd

Wringhim believes himself to be one of the elect, predestined for salvation and exempt from moral law, who embarks on a career as a murderer under the influence of a mysterious double. Hogg's terrifying masterpiece is presented in a new edition with an introduction that explores his remarkable career and the novel's originality and sophistication.

This edition for the first time collects Hogg's 'Maga' publications, as well as provides a comprehensive introduction to Hogg's connection with Blackwood's and full explanatory and textual notes to the works. The volume also includes works Hogg intended for Blackwood's and which have now been edited from extant manuscripts.

This collection is comprised of ten of Hogg's poems which, in very different ways, explore the visionary and supernatural, and the writer's portrayal of them - echoing the subject and title of Shakespeare's famous play.

Sets Hoggs' contributions for this 19th century periodical in full cultural context, with detailed annotation and a convenient and complete editorial apparatus.

'A Scottish classic, a world classic' Ian Rankin, ObserverRobert is a difficult and disturbed young man.

Investigates human genetic biobanking and its regulation in various Asian countries and areas, including Japan, Taiwan, and India. This volume focuses on how cultural, socio-political and economic factors influence the set-up of bioethical regulation for human genetic biobanks and how bioethical sensitivities surrounding biobanks are handled.

Originally published in 1810, The Forest Minstrel represents the first full collection of songs by Hogg.

The third and final volume of the first collected edition of Hogg's letters reveals his versatility in old age. It contains an index to all three volumes of Hogg's letters.

The letters in the second volume of Gillian Hughes's pioneering edition vividly reflect Hogg's varied social experience and shed new light on his own writings and those of his contemporaries.

The first ever edition of Hogg's letters to be published, featuring Hogg's correspondence with figures such as Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron and Sir Robert Peel.

The Queen's Wake is one of the landmarks of British Romantic poetry.

Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, James Hogg's masterpiece is a brilliant psychological study of religious fanaticism and the power of evil. This edition places the work within the context of Calvinism, Scottish political and constitutional history, and early psychological theories of 'double consciousness'.

Presents an extraordinary combination of the fantastic, the funny, the serious and the historically realistic. Ranging from Galloway to Northumberland, this title focuses on the Scottish Borders.

This new edition, thoughtfully introduced, extensively annotated and featuring a reading list and Hogg chronology, presents Altrive Tales as a major achievement by one of Scotland's finest storytellers.

An account of a man haunted by the Devil in the form of his own evil double. Hogg's 1824 novel, set in 17th century Scotland, anticipates Dostoevsky's great dramas of sin, self-accusation and damnation by half a century.