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Description for A Queer Book
Hardback. At first glance this is a witty and comical collection of poems. But the eccentric nature of many of the poems nevertheless belies the often serious historical and moral issues contained within. Editor(s): Garside, Peter; Mack, Douglas S. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 638.
'It will be a grand book for thae Englishers for they winna understand a word of it' Hogg's boast to William Blackwood Witty, humorous and comical as the title implies, the eccentric nature of many of the poems collected here nevertheless belies the often serious and moral issues contained within. Newly available in paperback, and including many of Hogg's better known longer pieces, the present volume is based on the first edition of A Queer Book to be published since 1832 - though the similarity between the two editions ends with the running order. While the text for the original ... Read more
'It will be a grand book for thae Englishers for they winna understand a word of it' Hogg's boast to William Blackwood Witty, humorous and comical as the title implies, the eccentric nature of many of the poems collected here nevertheless belies the often serious and moral issues contained within. Newly available in paperback, and including many of Hogg's better known longer pieces, the present volume is based on the first edition of A Queer Book to be published since 1832 - though the similarity between the two editions ends with the running order. While the text for the original ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Series
The Collected Works of James Hogg
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748605064
SKU
V9780748605064
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About James Hogg
P. D. Garside is Professor of Bibliography and Textual Studies, University of Edinburgh and editor of James Hogg's A Queer Book and Walter Scott's Guy Mannering and Waverley.
Reviews for A Queer Book
The 1994 Queer Book is muchmore than a reprint of the 1832 text...Hogg boasted to William Blackwood'it will be a grand book for thae Englishers for they winna understand aword of it'. The new collection, now carefully annotatedby Peter Garside, revels in its own variety.
Fiona Stafford The 1994 Queer Book is muchmore than a reprint of the 1832 ... Read more
Fiona Stafford The 1994 Queer Book is muchmore than a reprint of the 1832 ... Read more