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Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Paperback, New Ed)
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Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg
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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 Andre
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 era. It has also been
acclaimed as one of the defining texts of Scotland, with Iain
Crichton Smith recently applauding 'a towering Scottish novel, one
of the very greatest of all Scottish books'. Peter Garside's
eagerly-awaited new Stirling / South Carolina edition (available in
both hardback and paperback) excitingly opens out our understanding
of Hogg's masterpiece. Its annotation adds very substantially to
the contributions of previous editors, for example by showing
various layers of hitherto undetected references. Through an
impressive piece of scholarly detective-work, Garside has also
uncovered the remarkable story of the first printing of the
Justified Sinner and Hogg's battle with his London publishers,
Longman, for his subversive and challenging novel to make its first
appearance in a form he found satisfactory. This edition provides
an illuminating and compelling new account of the genesis of Hogg's
masterpiece, and of the cultural, theological, geographical, and
historical contexts of this remarkable novel.
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