James Hogg and British Romanticism: A Kaleidoscopic Art

by Meiko O'Halloran

Overview

This study argues for Hogg's centrality to British Romanticism, resituating his work in relation to many of his more famous Romantic contemporaries. Hogg creates a unique literary style which, the author argues, is best described as 'kaleidoscopic' in view of its similarities with David Brewster's kaleidoscope, invented in 1816.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137559043
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/11/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Meiko O'Halloran is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She has published various articles and essays on aspects of Scottish and British Romanticism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Reclaiming Hogg's Place in British Romanticism
1. Hogg's Self-Positioning: The Poetic Mirror and the Literary Marketplace
2. Hogg's Eighteenth-Century Inheritance: The Queen's Wake, National Epic, and Imagined Ancestries
3. By Accident and Design: Burns, Shakespeare, and Hogg's Kaleidoscopic Techniques, from the Theatre and The Poetic Mirror to Queen Hynde
4. Exploding Authority and Inheritance: Reading the Confessions of a Justified Sinner as a Kaleidoscopic Novel
5. Imploding the Nation: Aesthetic Conflict in Tales of the Wars of Montrose
Conclusion: Expanding the Range of Romanticism
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

James Hogg and British Romanticism makes an original and significant contribution to the ongoing conversation on how Hogg’s works engage with and diverge from the artistic vision and practices of fellow Romantics. … O’Halloran’s pioneering and perceptive study is essential reading for those working on the life and writings of James Hogg and in the fields of Scottish Romanticism, British Romanticism, literary history, and reader response theory.” (Holly Faith Nelson, The BARS Review, Issue 49, 2017)

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