Description:
Gathers together Hogg's writing for magazines beyond Scotland
Beginning with the short story 'The Long Pack', first published in a London miscellany in 1809, and concluding with 'The Rose of Plora', a poem printed posthumously in a New York eclectic magazine in 1841, the collection spans the full period of Hogg's life as a professional writer. Several pieces are reprinted in this book for the first time.
A detailed introduction explores Hogg's complex relationship to the periodicals market in Scotland and overseas, while an extensive Appendix records the many hundreds of reprints of his work in newspapers and magazines around the world. Each text is introduced and fully annotated, and its publication history accounted for. A glossary aids readers unfamiliar with the Scots language.
Brief description: Barbara Leonardi earned her AHRC-funded PhD from the University of Stirling, winning the 2013 Ross Roy Medal for the best doctoral thesis in Scottish literature. From 2014-17, she served as Research Assistant on the AHRC-funded project "James Hogg: Contributions to International Periodicals." She specialises in the 19th-century periodical press; the Romantic novel; gender, class, and race in the long 19th-century; and pragmatic linguistics applied to literature. She has published on Hogg, Walter Scott and Mary Wollstonecraft; is a reviewer for The Year's Work in English Studies; and edited Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond (Palgrave, 2018).
Review Quotes: At last, a volume of Hogg's works that reveals his remarkable national and international reach and influence. This carefully edited and comprehensively annotated collection of Hogg's contributions to periodicals in England, Ireland, and North America vividly demonstrates that the appeal of the Ettrick Shepherd outside of Scotland resulted from his unparalleled mastery of a range of dialects, genres and modes, and subject matter.-- "Holly Faith Nelson, Trinity Western University"