Hogg's extremely rare periodical of 1810-11 shows him reacting to
the writers, personalities and locales of Scotland's capital city
after his move to Edinburgh from Ettrick and his career change from
shepherd and farmer to professional author. His characteristically
astute and idiosyncratic vision reveals a rather different city
from that of Walter Scott and Francis Jeffrey, and his band of
contributors from another audience for his work than the middle
class Tories associated with the later "Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine," "The Spy" includes early versions of some of Hogg's
best-known poetry and prose besides a wealth of fascinating
lesser-known material. This is the first edition of "The Spy" since
the original edition of 1810-11 was published, and offers a
carefully constructed text, full of annotation, notes on Hogg's
contributors to his papers, and a history of its making. It
represents an advance in our knowledge both of Hogg's early writing
career and of the city he encountered early in the nineteenth
century.
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