“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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Dr Morna Fleming discusses Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER at our 2020 Schools Conference
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoKhq4xDek4&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WbTLaABqVVk2xHfJdHDtpms&index=5
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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
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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…”
“A Scots Mummy” – Hogg’s ingenious metafictional pre-publicity for the CONFESSIONS… (Blackwood’ Magazine, 1823)
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“Reading resembles the work of archaeological excavation, an uncovering of layers of pre-existing or co-existing material…”
—Gillian Hughes traces parallels between Robert Wringhim’s fictional CONFESSIONS & Hogg’s own “Memoir of the Author’s Life”
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Available on BBC Sounds: geneticist Prof Steve Jones chooses James Hogg for this 2003 episode of GREAT LIVES
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