Author: James HoggPublisher:
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Languages : en
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2 Letters from James Hogg to Eliza Izett
Author: James HoggThe Collected Letters of James Hogg
Author: James HoggPublisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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2 Letters from James Hogg, Including 1 to James Elliott
Author: James HoggThe Collected Letters of James Hogg: 1800-1819
Author: James HoggPublisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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James Hogg's Literary Friendships with John Grieve and Eliza Izett
Author: Janette CurrieMador of the Moor
Author: James HoggPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474469213
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
With an Essay on Hogg's Literary Friendships by Janette Currie and an Appendix on the Popular Context by Suzanne GilbertScottish popular tradition includes a group of stories about a King who has adventures - amorous and otherwise - as he wanders in disguise among his people. Many of these stories focus on James V and in Walter Scott's long narrative poem The Lady of the Lake (1810) the King encounters a mysterious lady while he is wandering alone and unrecognised in the Highlands. At first sight Scott's heroine seems to be a simple country girl, but she turns out to be a daughter of the great aristocratic house of Douglas, living for the time being in a rural exile.Scott's romantic and aristocratic version of the old 'wandering King' stories was hugely popular in its day, but Hogg subverts and questions this tale in Mador of the Moor (1816). The name 'Mador' suggests 'made o'er', 'made over', and Mador of the Moor is in effect a makeover of The Lady of the Lake. Hogg's poem, like Scott's, tells how a deer-hunt in the Highlands leads a disguised King of Scots into a love-adventure with a young woman. However Hogg's heroine, Ila Moore, is not a chaste aristocrat but a girl of low social standing who is made pregnant by the wandering King. Ila's inherent resourcefulness and strength of character suggest that a peasant girl pregnant out of wedlock can be a heroine fully worthy of respect, and Mador (rejected as shocking and ridiculous by its original readership), now re-emerges as a flowing and immensely readable narrative that eloquently challenges the deeply-ingrained class and gender prejudices of Hogg's society.
The Collected Works of James Hogg: The collected letters of James Hogg: volume 1, 1800-1819
Author: James HoggPublisher:
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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"Hogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804, and in Highland Journeys he offers a thoughtful and deeply-felt response to the Highland Clearances. He gives vivid pictures of his experiences, including a narrow escape from a Navy press-gang, and a Sacrament day with one minister preaching in English and another in Gaelic. Hogg also explains aspects of Gaelic culture such as the waulking songs, and he describes the trade in kelp, lucrative to the landowners but back-breaking and ill-paid for the workers. Highland Journeys makes a refreshing contribution to our understanding of early nineteenth-century travel writing"--Publisher description.
2 Letters from James Hogg to William Gray
Author: James HoggLocation Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. SuttonPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Author: James Hogg