“Hogg defied categorisation. A prolific poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist, short story writer & parodist, he wrote with equal skill in Scots & English”
James Hogg, AKA “the Ettrick Shepherd” (1770–1835, DOB unknown) was baptised #OTD, 9 Dec
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James Hogg’s most famous work is undoubtedly his PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER (1824) – “a trenchant religious & social satire, a bloody Gothic tale, a morality play, a compelling account of madness”
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https://johannapolus.medium.com/the-devil-is-a-mirror-77787057a1bc
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“A half-title prefacing Wringhim’s own narrative describes it as ‘Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Sinner. Written by Himself’, inevitably a double categorisation of this most duplicitous of literary works”
Gillian Hughes on James Hogg’s tricks & turns
3/10
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The question asked by the fictional Editor of Robert Wringhim’s ‘Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Sinner’ is still being asked today, two hundred years from the first publication of Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner in June 1824. A novel shaped by the pattern of Scott’s historical novels? A compendium of Scottish […]
James Kelman discusses Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER on the Unburied Books podcast, looking at the novel’s unusual structure, moral ambiguity, & mixture of genres, & placing the work in a modern, international context
4/10
#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury
Author James Kelman joins us to discuss James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, originally published in 1824. It tells the story of a staunch Calvininst who is lured into a killing spree by a mysterious, shapeshifting being. We discuss the novel's unusual structure, moral ambiguity, and mixture of genres. Kelman offers historical insight into the book's philospophy and places the work in a modern, international context. References:Andre GideFranz KafkaThe Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell and Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel JohnsonThe Collected Letters of James HoggThe Brownie of BodsbeckJohn BrownWilliam BlakeEdgar Allan PoeRobert Louis StevensonDracula by Bram StokerSamuel BeckettThe CastleThe TrialPeggotty in David Copperfield by Charles DickensImmanuel KantDavid HumeAdam SmithFrancis HutchinsonJames Clerk MaxwellHegelKarl MarxSoren KierkegaardRene DecartesFrankenstein by Mary ShelleyBlackwood's MagazineLudwig WittgensteinFrancisco GoyaWilliam WordsworthStrange Case of Dr Jekyl and Mr HydeHow Late It Was, How LateRobert the BruceGoetheAlbert Camus Fyodor DostoevskyJack KerouacKnut HamsunLucinda WilliamsTom Leonard Find us on Twitter or Instagram, and click here to view our most up-to-date episode schedule.
Dr Morna Fleming discusses Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER at our 2020 Schools Conference
5/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoKhq4xDek4&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WbTLaABqVVk2xHfJdHDtpms&index=5
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“On top of a wild height, called Cowanscroft, where the lands of three proprietors meet at one point, there has been, for long & many years, the grave of a suicide…”
Hogg’s ingenious metafictional pre-publicity for the CONFESSIONS… (Blackwoods 1823)
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Available on BBC Sounds: Prof Steve Jones chooses James Hogg for this 2003 episode of GREAT LIVES
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076dwb
#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury
To James Hogg’s contemporaries, he was best known for his poems & for his stories – especially his supernatural tales, which often drew on Scottish folklore. Dr David Robb discusses “Mary Burnet”, “The Brownie of the Black Haggs”, & “Strange Letter of a Lunatic”
8/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhIQyrJU8c
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In the 3 eerie tales discussed by David Robb ☝️, James Hogg explores the quirks, possibilities, & dark undercurrents of human psychology
👻 Mary Burnet
👺 The Brownie of the Black Haggs
👿 Strange Letter of a Lunatic
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9/10
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/the-devil-i-am-sure/
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A curious coincidence? A certain sympathy for the Satanic? Or a testament to the enduring influence of the JUSTIFIED SINNER? Of eight devilish novels chosen by Luke Dumas for the Literary Hub, three – including Hogg’s masterpiece – are by Scottish authors…
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https://lithub.com/the-darkness-within-8-novels-about-the-devil/
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