Winter Evening Tales: Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of Scotland - Rilegato

Hogg, James; Duncan, Ian

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ISBN 10: 0748615563 ISBN 13: 9780748615568

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Exhibiting the most complex genesis of any of Hogg's works, it is the outstanding example of a 'national' genre pioneered by him - the miscellaneous collection of popular and traditional narratives. Hogg's experimental medley of novellas, tales, poems and sketches posed a lively alternative to the dominant form of the historical novel established by Walter Scott. The collection includes terse masterpieces of mystery and the uncanny, virtuoso improvisations on folktale themes, and - the highlights of the edition - two brilliant autobiographical novellas, The Renowned Adventures of Basil Lee and Love Adventures of Mr George Cochrane.Reprinted in incomplete and unreliable texts in Victorian editions of Hogg's works, Winter Evening Tales fell into almost total obscurity after the author's death. The Stirling/ South Carolina Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg is delighted

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L'autore:

Ian Duncan is Florence Green Bixby Professor, Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley

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Book by Hogg James

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0748615563
• ISBN 13: 9780748615568
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 648