Author: James HoggPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
The three perils of man; or, War, women, and witchcraft
Author: James HoggThe Three Perils Of Man
Author: James HoggPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 184767464X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Edited and introduced by Douglas Gifford. The Three Perils of Man is regarded as Hogg’s most ambitious work of fiction. The book’s extraordinary combination of the fantastic, the funny, the serious and the historically realistic must be unique in literature. The adventures of its characters, told with the author’s characteristically bold simplicity, are many, mad, and breathtakingly fast. Ranging from Galloway to Northumberland, the main focus of the book is to be found in the Scottish Borders. Hogg knew and loved the Borders well, and the book is full of their oral tradition and local lore. In his attempt to synthesise this material with history, romance and the high literary ideals of his time, Hogg’s nearest modern parallels would be a combination of Tolkien and Iain Banks. Hogg’s fusion of traditional folklore and innovative style was viewed as an anachronism by his contemporaries, and it is only now that his work is recognised s one of the most original and masterly in the Scottish canon.
Martial masculinities
Author: Michael BrownPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526135647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two of the greatest wars the world had ever known. It offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on an emerging field of study and draws on historical, literary, visual and musical sources to demonstrate the centrality of the military and its masculine dimensions in the shaping of Victorian and Edwardian personal and national identities. Focusing on both the experience of military service and its imaginative forms, it examines such topics as bodies and habits, families and domesticity, heroism and chivalry, religion and militarism, and youth and fantasy. This collection will be required reading for anyone interested in the cultures of war and masculinity in the long nineteenth century.
James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace
Author: Holly Faith NelsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135192575X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Responding to the resurgence of interest in the Scottish working-class writer James Hogg, Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson offer the first edited collection devoted to an examination of the critical implications of his writings and their position in the Edinburgh and London literary marketplaces. Writing during a particularly complex time in Scottish literary history, Hogg, a working shepherd for much of his life, is seen to challenge many of the aesthetic conventions adopted by his contemporaries and to anticipate many of the concerns voiced in discussions of literature in recent years. While the essays privilege Hogg's primary texts and read them closely in their immediate cultural context, the volume's contributors also introduce relevant research on oral culture, nationalism, transnationalism, intertextuality, class, colonialism, empire, psychology, and aesthetics where they serve to illuminate Hogg's literary ingenuity as a working-class writer in Romantic Scotland.
A catalogue of Hookham's circulating library
Author: Hookham's libraryHarry and Lucy Concluded
Author: Maria EdgeworthPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Dyce Collection: Note. Alexander Dyce. By J. Forster. Manuscripts. Printed books, A to K
Author: South Kensington Museum. Dyce collectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The London Magazine
Author: A Catalogue of a Collection of Splendid Books, Books of Prints, Voyages, Travels, and Miscellaneous Literature, Now on Sale ...
Author: Robert Buchanan (Publisher.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1902
Book Description