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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https://unburied-books.castos.com/episodes/the-private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-a-justified-sinner-with-james-kelman

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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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https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-a-justified-sinner-1824/

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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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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/06/what-can-this-work-be-james-hoggs-the-private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-a-justified-sinner/#easy-footnote-2-6715

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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 Hogg’s “Mary Burnet”, “The Brownie of the Black Haggs”, & “Strange Letter of a Lunatic” at our 2017 Schools Conference

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhIQyrJU8c

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In the 3 eerie tales discussed by David Robb above, 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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Download the free ebook here:

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 James Hogg’s PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER? Of the 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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