Lay Sermons / Edition 1

by James Hogg, Gillian Hughes, Douglas S. Mack

Overview

Lay Sermons offers, playfully, a series of lay sermons on good principles and good breeding - the last thing that one would expect from the pen of Blackwood's Ettrick Shepherd. But a significant part of the joke is that the Shepherd provides lay sermons that combine into a series of wise meditations on life and on literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748607464
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1997
Series:	The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg , #5
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. He is best known for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

Gillian Hughes, Independent Scholar, has been a General Editor of the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg, and is currently an advisory editor for the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry and for the New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. She has published critical editions of works by each of these writers, and also a biography of James Hogg.

The late Douglas S. Mack was formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling.

Editorial Reviews

Hogg was one of the most complex Scots of his time, as his most famous friend Scott realised when he acknowledged he was a genuine genius. It has taken Scotland a long time to wake up to the enduring importance of the author of the Justified Sinner and all the works to be included in, when complete, what will amount to the 31 volumes of the Stirling/South Carolina edition of the whole Hogg. Scotland perennially recognises only one writer, but Burns is not the whole story.

From the Publisher

Offers the complete text of a work first published in 1834, by a self- educated Scottish shepherd and writer. Includes an introduction on the genesis, literary context, and reception of the sermons, and explanatory notes. Distributed by Columbia University Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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