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Altrive Tales: Collected Among the Peasantry of Scotland and from Foreign Adventurers
James Hogg
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Description for Altrive Tales: Collected Among the Peasantry of Scotland and from Foreign Adventurers
Hardback. Altrive Tales was carefully prepared by Hogg in 1832 as the opening volume in a planned twelve-volume collected prose fiction series, intended as the culmination of his career as a storyteller. Editor(s): Hughes, Gillian. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 714.
Altrive Tales was carefully prepared by Hogg in 1832 as the opening volume in a planned twelve-volume collected prose fiction series, intended as the culmination of his career as a storyteller. It opens with his own story of how a ragged servant-lad remade himself as a respected professional writer, the associate of Byron, Scott, Southey, Wordsworth and Galt. Hogg's frank and humorous 'Memoir of the Author's Life' is widely recognised as a classic of Romantic autobiography and an important record of early nineteenth-century Scottish culture. Hogg's sharp eye for the latest publishing phenomena and pawky self-mocking humour is evident in ... Read more
Altrive Tales was carefully prepared by Hogg in 1832 as the opening volume in a planned twelve-volume collected prose fiction series, intended as the culmination of his career as a storyteller. It opens with his own story of how a ragged servant-lad remade himself as a respected professional writer, the associate of Byron, Scott, Southey, Wordsworth and Galt. Hogg's frank and humorous 'Memoir of the Author's Life' is widely recognised as a classic of Romantic autobiography and an important record of early nineteenth-century Scottish culture. Hogg's sharp eye for the latest publishing phenomena and pawky self-mocking humour is evident in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Series
The Collected Works of James Hogg
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748618934
SKU
V9780748618934
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About James Hogg
Gillian Hughes is the author of the biography James Hogg: A Life (EUP, 2007) and is editor of the journal Studies in Hogg and his World. She has edited or co-edited seven volumes in the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg series.
Reviews for Altrive Tales: Collected Among the Peasantry of Scotland and from Foreign Adventurers
This is a fascinating volume, full of surprises, challenges and confirmations ! Gillian Hughes' editorial activities are exemplary: the textual decisions and apparatus inspire confidence and assent, and the genesis of the Tales is pieced together in an introduction which is a serious piece of scholarly detecitve work in its own right!she offers finely-observed, stimulating exegiesis which will encourage further ... Read more