The Three Perils of Man: Or War Women and Witchcraft: a Border Romance - Rilegato

Hogg, James

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ISBN 10: 0748638113 ISBN 13: 9780748638116

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2012

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In starting The Three Perils of Man Hogg embarked on an ambitious project of emulating and perhaps surpassing his friend and rival Walter Scott in Scott’s own chosen literary territory, chivalry and the Borders. Originally envisaged as a two volume ‘Border Romance’, entitled The Perilous Castle and centred around Roxburgh Castle, it expanded to include events at Roxburgh Castle, home of the legendary wizard Michael Scott, leading eventually to the adoption of the title The Three Perils of Man: War, Women, and Witchcraft. Hogg offers a devastating critique of chivalry and combines it with a study of the supernatural, an area in which he had been steeped from his childhood, and which produces some of his finest writing, including a magnificent portrait of the Devil disguised as an abbot. A host of other characters led by the lovable Charlie Scott of Yardbire provide us with a vision of everyday Borders life and values to set against the more fantastic worlds of chivalry and wizardry. Included in the novel is a story-telling contest which features some of Hogg’s most powerful short stories.
This edition is based on the first edition of 1822 but draws on the newly available manuscript in the Fales Library of New York University to provide a number of new readings, including the restoration of Hogg’s original audacious choice of the name Sir Walter Scott for a key character. It includes an introduction describing the genesis, composition, publication and subsequent revision of the novel, a historical and geographical note, full explanatory notes and a glossary. It also contains a comprehensive essay on the manuscript by Gillian Hughes.

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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.

Graham Tulloch is Emeritus Professor of English at Flinders University and has published books and articles on Scottish language and literature. He has edited Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, Marcus Clarke’s His Natural Life and Catherine Martin’s An Australian Girl as well as co-editing several texts with Judy King.

Judy King is a Research Fellow in English at Flinders University. With J. H. Alexander and Graham Tulloch she has edited Walter Scott’s The Siege of Malta and Bizarro and, with Graham Tulloch, Scott’s Shorter Fiction, Catherine Helen Spence’s Tenacious of the Past and James Hogg’s The Three Perils of Man. She has also published articles on Beowulf.

Graham Tulloch is Professor of English at the Flinders University, Australia.

Judy King is Research Fellow at the Flinders University, Australia.

Judy King is a Research Fellow in English at Flinders University. With J. H. Alexander and Graham Tulloch, she has edited Walter Scott's The Siege of Roxburgh and Bizarro and with Graham Tulloch, Scott's Shorter Fiction and Catherine Helen Spence's Tenacious of the Past. She has also published articles on Beowulf.
Graham Tulloch is Professor of English at Flinders University and has published books and articles on Scottish language and literature. He has edited Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Marcus Clarke's His Natural Life and Catherine Martin's An Australian Girl and has co-edited several texts with Judy King.
Gillian Hughes is the author of James Hogg: A Life (2007), and has edited or co-edited a number of volumes in the Stirling/South Carolina Edition of his works, including the three-volume Collected Letters of James Hogg (2004-8). She was the founding editor of Studies in Hogg and his World and is currently working towards a new Hogg bibliography.

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The Collected Works ofJAMES HOGGFounding General Editor: Douglas S. MackGeneral Editors: Ian Duncan andSuzanne Gilbert‘Simple congratulations are in order at the outset, to the editors and publisher […] of the projected Collected Works of James Hogg. It has taken a long time for Hogg to be recognised as one of the most notable Scottish writers, and it can fairly be said that the process of getting him into full and clear focus is still far from complete. That process is immeasurably helped by the provision of proper and unbowdlerised texts (in many cases for the first time), and in this the ongoing Collected Works will be a milestone […] we have an author of unique interest, force, and originality.’Edwin Morgan, Scottish Literary Journal‘Edinburgh University Press are also to be praised for the elegant presentation of the books. It is wonderful that at last we are going to have a collected edition of this important author without bowdlerisation or linguistic interference […]. These books of Hogg have been wonderfully presented and edited. Hogg’s own idiosyncratic style has been left untouched.’Ian Crichton Smith, Studies in Scottish Literature‘It may take some time, but when the current Collected Works reaches its culmination, Hogg’s great novel should seem a little less oddly unique, and some other astounding books […] may receive their share of belated glory.’Liam McIlvanney, London Review of Books‘[T]he Stirling/South Carolina edition of Hogg’s works is proving one of the major scholarly publishing events of the decade.’Penny Fielding, Studies in Hogg and his World‘A quiet revolution in Scottish literary studies has been going on over the past 10 years. The Stirling/South Carolina research edition of the collected works of James Hogg has been steadily forcing a reassessment of one of our best-known but least-read authors.’James Robertson, The Herald

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0748638113
• ISBN 13: 9780748638116
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 558
• Redattore: King Judy, Tulloch Graham
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