Zeit, Tod und Ewigkeit in der Renaissance Literatur, Volume 3. Edited by James Hogg. Analecta Cartusiana 117. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1987. 246 pp.

1988 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-365
Author(s):  
Gunar Freibergs
Keyword(s):  
James Hogg

James Hogg, ‘the beginner, and almost sole instigator' of Blackwood's – Not Once, but Twice

Romanticism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-214
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
James Hogg ◽  
The Social ◽  
Magazine Publishing

James Hogg claims to have been instrumental in initiating both versions of William Blackwood's venture into magazine publishing in 1817. This essay examines Hogg's role in beginning the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine and its successor, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and discusses the significance of his contributions to the Edinburgh Monthly and the early numbers of Blackwood's in terms of his influence on the direction of the magazine and the magazine's impact on him. Attention is given to key works in both versions, especially ‘Tales and Anecdotes of the Pastoral Life’ and ‘Shakspeare Club of Alloa’ in the Edinburgh Monthly and the ‘Chaldee Manuscript’ and ‘Elegy’ in Blackwood's. Also important for Hogg's relationship with Blackwood's were Hogg's submissions that Blackwood did not publish. This essay looks particularly at Hogg's failed effort to enter the attacks on the Cockney School and how he also became a victim of the social and intellectual disdain leveled against the Cockneys.

Black Books and Brownies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Milbank
Keyword(s):  
Historical Change ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Black Book ◽  
James Hogg ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Future

Scottish fiction about the Reformation is concerned with the mechanics of historical change, which are rendered through a series of enchanted books and people discussed in Chapter 8. In the novel, The Monastery, describing the Dissolution and Reformation, Scott gothicizes the Bible as a magic book and the White Lady as its guardian to dramatize the mysterious nature of religious change, the dependence of the future on a Gothic past, and the need for interpretation. In Old Mortality, Scott’s protagonist escapes the frozen dualities of Covenanter and Claverhouse, revealing historical change itself as problematic in Humean terms and requiring a leap of faith. James Hogg contests this presentation of the Covenanters by re-enchanting them as supposed brownies, as mediators of history and nature, and in his Three Perils of Man reprises Scott’s wizard Michael Scott pitted against Roger Bacon and his ‘black book’ the Bible to present the Reformation as an eternal reality.

‘THE HOPE OF REMEMBRANCE’: A SONG BY JAMES HOGG

1985 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-b-344
Author(s):  
DAVID GROVES
Keyword(s):  
James Hogg

Short Fictions of Improvement by James Hogg and Walter Scott

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-111
Author(s):  
Gerard Lee McKeever
Keyword(s):  
Short Fiction ◽  
Formal Logic ◽  
Literary Marketplace ◽  
James Hogg ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Revisionist History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Walter Scott ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Half Decade

This chapter reads James Hogg and Walter Scott within a new, revisionist history of short fiction that is particularly interested in the genre of the ‘tale’. Focusing on the half-decade between 1827 and 1831, the chapter highlights a selection of Hogg’s mature contributions to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine alongside Scott’s Chronicles of the Canongate (first series). These years were marked by literary experimentation, when a confident improving persuasion in Scottish culture was threatening to unravel. The formal logic of these short fictions, defined by a curiously focused spontaneity, exacerbates a pluralistic handling of the collision between improvement and tradition. Different models of time (progress, renewal, disruption) and belief (suspension, scepticism, credulity) serve to interrogate improvement in a wide range of contexts around commercial modernisation. The chapter unpacks two specific literary innovations in this context. The first looks to acts of transmission in the literary marketplace which by turns sustain, contain and defer the dialectics of improvement. The second sees the emergence of a fully fledged aesthetic vocabulary of culture in Scott’s writing.

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