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Altrive Tales: Featuring a Memoir of the Author´s Life
James Hogg
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Description for Altrive Tales: Featuring a Memoir of the Author´s Life
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Hughes, Gillian. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 31. Weight in Grams: 462.
'I like to write about myself: in fact, there are few things I like better!' So confesses Hogg with pawky self-mocking humour in Altrive Tales. The collection opens with Hogg's own story of how a ragged servant-lad remade himself as a respected professional writer, the associate of Byron, Scott, Southey, Wordsworth and Galt. Hogg's frank and humorous 'Memoir of the Author's Life' is widely recognised as a classic of Romantic autobiography and an important record of early nineteenth-century Scottish culture. The themes of the 'Memoir' continue in the tales that follow. 'The Adventures of Captain John Lochy' is a fast-paced ... Read more
'I like to write about myself: in fact, there are few things I like better!' So confesses Hogg with pawky self-mocking humour in Altrive Tales. The collection opens with Hogg's own story of how a ragged servant-lad remade himself as a respected professional writer, the associate of Byron, Scott, Southey, Wordsworth and Galt. Hogg's frank and humorous 'Memoir of the Author's Life' is widely recognised as a classic of Romantic autobiography and an important record of early nineteenth-century Scottish culture. The themes of the 'Memoir' continue in the tales that follow. 'The Adventures of Captain John Lochy' is a fast-paced ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
The Collected Works of James Hogg
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748620876
SKU
V9780748620876
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About James Hogg
Gillian Hughes is the author of the biography James Hogg: A Life (EUP, 2007) and is editor of the journal Studies in Hogg and his World. She has edited or co-edited seven volumes in the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg series.
Reviews for Altrive Tales: Featuring a Memoir of the Author´s Life
This is a fascinating volume, full of surprises, challenges and confirmations! Gillian Hughes's editorial activities are exemplary: the textual decisions and apparatus inspire confidence and assent, and the genesis of the Tales is pieced together from manuscript evidence in an introduction which is a serious piece of scholarly detective work in its own right! [S]he offers finely-observed, stimulating exegesis which ... Read more