The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself, With a Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts and Other Evidence by the Editor - Brossura

Hogg, James; Garside, Peter D.

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ISBN 10: 0748663150 ISBN 13: 9780748663156

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

A TLS International Book of the Year(TLS, Dec 7, 2001)This now-famous book was given a hostile reception when it first appeared in 1824. It was not reprinted until the late 1830s, when a heavily bowdlerised version was included in a posthumous edition of Hogg's collected Tales and Sketches published by Blackie & Son of Glasgow. Thereafter Confessions of a Justified Sinner attracted little interest until the 1890s, when the unbowdlerised text was printed for the first time since the 1820s. However, the current high reputation of Hogg's novel did not fully begin to establish itself until 1947, when a warmly enthusiastic Introduction by André Gide appeared in a new edition of the unbowdlerised text. He went on to record how he had read 'this astounding book [] with a stupefaction and admiration that increased at every page'. Many readers have subsequently shared Gide's enthusiasm, and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is now widely recognised as one of the outstanding British novels of the Romantic er

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Ian Campbell is Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0748663150
• ISBN 13: 9780748663156
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 261