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  1. A curious coincidence? A certain sympathy for the Satanic? Or a testament to the enduring influence of the JUSTIFIED SINNER? Of eight devilish novels chosen by Luke Dumas for the Literary Hub, three – including Hogg’s masterpiece – are by Scottish authors…
    😈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    10/10

    lithub.com/the-darkness-within

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury #devil #satan #satanic

  2. In the 3 eerie tales discussed by David Robb ☝️, James Hogg explores the quirks, possibilities, & dark undercurrents of human psychology

    👻 Mary Burnet
    👺 The Brownie of the Black Haggs
    👿 Strange Letter of a Lunatic

    Download the free ebook here

    9/10

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury #supernatural #folklore #doppelganger

  3. To James Hogg’s contemporaries, he was best known for his poems & for his stories – especially his supernatural tales, which often drew on Scottish folklore. Dr David Robb discusses “Mary Burnet”, “The Brownie of the Black Haggs”, & “Strange Letter of a Lunatic”

    8/10

    youtube.com/watch?v=exhIQyrJU8c

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury #supernatural #folklore #doppelganger

  4. “On top of a wild height, called Cowanscroft, where the lands of three proprietors meet at one point, there has been, for long & many years, the grave of a suicide…”

    Hogg’s ingenious metafictional pre-publicity for the CONFESSIONS… (Blackwoods 1823)

    6/10

    publicdomainreview.org/collect

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury #postmodern #metafiction

  5. James Kelman discusses Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER on the Unburied Books podcast, looking at the novel’s unusual structure, moral ambiguity, & mixture of genres, & placing the work in a modern, international context

    4/10

    unburied-books.castos.com/epis

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury

  6. “A half-title prefacing Wringhim’s own narrative describes it as ‘Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Sinner. Written by Himself’, inevitably a double categorisation of this most duplicitous of literary works”

    Gillian Hughes on James Hogg’s tricks & turns

    3/10

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/06/wh

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury #memoir

  7. James Hogg’s most famous work is undoubtedly his PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER (1824) – “a trenchant religious & social satire, a bloody Gothic tale, a morality play, a compelling account of madness”

    2/10

    johannapolus.medium.com/the-de

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury

  8. “Hogg defied categorisation. A prolific poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist, short story writer & parodist, he wrote with equal skill in Scots & English”

    James Hogg, AKA “the Ettrick Shepherd” (1770–1835, DOB unknown) was baptised #OTD, 9 Dec

    🧵

    1/10

    theconversation.com/james-hogg

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury

  9. SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/2 (Autumn/Winter 2025)

    The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via Project MUSE (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly! Papers range from medieval poetry, through 18th- & 19th-century literature, to Muriel Spark & the Brontës

    @litstudies

    muse.jhu.edu/issue/55415

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #18thcentury #19thcentury #20thcentury #JamesHogg #RobertBurns #MurielSpark #Brontes

  10. James Hogg & Mikhail Bulgakov

    In the latest London Review of Books podcast, Marina Warner & Adam Thirlwell look at how James Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER & Bulgakov’s THE MASTER & MARGARITA represent fanaticism, be it Calvinism or Bolshevism, & consider why both writers used the fantastical to test reality

    @litstudies

    lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/

    #Scottish #Russian #Soviet #literature #JamesHogg #MikhailBulgakov #gothic #horror #fanaticism #Calvinism #Bolshevism #fantasy

  11. Approaches to Annotation: Insights & Challenges Editing Hogg & Woolf
    15 May, University of Glasgow – free

    Dr Megan Coyer & Dr Annie Strausa will reflect on two major textual editing projects. What are the different challenges faced by editors annotating modernist short fiction versus short fiction (& poetry) from a late Romantic-era periodical?

    @litstudies

    eventbrite.co.uk/e/approaches-

    #Scottish #literature #romanticism #modernism #JamesHogg #VirginiaWoolf #editing

  12. O, love, love, love!
    Love is like a dizziness;
    It winna let a poor body
    Gang about his biziness!

    James Hogg (1770–1835), “Love is like a dizziness”

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #JamesHogg #Scots #Scotslanguage #ValentinesDay #love #lovepoem #humour

  13. In the 3 eerie tales discussed by David Robb above, James Hogg explores the quirks, possibilities, & dark undercurrents of human psychology

    👻 Mary Burnet
    👺 The Brownie of the Black Haggs
    👿 Strange Letter of a Lunatic

    9/10

    Download the free ebook here:

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #18thcentury #19thcentury #shortfiction #shortstories #gothic #romanticism #folklore #supernatural

  14. To James Hogg’s contemporaries, he was best known for his poems & for his stories – especially his supernatural tales, which often drew on Scottish folklore. Dr David Robb discusses Hogg’s “Mary Burnet”, “The Brownie of the Black Haggs”, & “Strange Letter of a Lunatic” at our 2017 Schools Conference

    8/10

    youtube.com/watch?v=exhIQyrJU8

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #18thcentury #19thcentury #supernatural #folklore

  15. “Reading resembles the work of archaeological excavation, an uncovering of layers of pre-existing or co-existing material…”

    —Gillian Hughes traces parallels between Robert Wringhim’s fictional CONFESSIONS & Hogg’s own “Memoir of the Author’s Life”

    6/10

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/06/wh

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #18thcentury #19thcentury #gothic #romanticism #memoir

  16. “On top of a wild height, called Cowanscroft, where the lands of three proprietors meet at one point, there has been, for long & many years, the grave of a suicide…”

    “A Scots Mummy” – Hogg’s ingenious metafictional pre-publicity for the CONFESSIONS… (Blackwood’ Magazine, 1823)

    5/10

    publicdomainreview.org/collect

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #18thcentury #19thcentury #gothic #romanticism

  17. James Kelman discusses Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER on the Unburied Books podcast, looking at the novel’s unusual structure, moral ambiguity, & mixture of genres, & placing the work in a modern, international context

    4/10

    unburied-books.castos.com/epis

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #18thcentury #19thcentury #gothic #romanticism

  18. James Hogg’s most famous work is undoubtedly his PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER (1824) – “a trenchant religious & social satire, a bloody Gothic tale, a morality play, a compelling account of madness”

    @bookstodon

    2/10

    johannapolus.medium.com/the-de

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #18thcentury #19thcentury #gothic #romanticism

  19. “Hogg defied categorisation. A prolific poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist, short story writer & parodist, he wrote with equal skill in Scots & English.”

    James Hogg, AKA “the Ettrick Shepherd” (1770–1835, DOB unknown) was baptised #OTD, 9 Dec

    🧵

    1/10

    theconversation.com/james-hogg

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #18thcentury #19thcentury

  20. Douglas Kay & Martin Philip – AKA the folk duo The Sorries – recorded a podcast about “Killiecrankie”, discussing the publication of the song, the figures & events which inspired it, & how it played a pivotal role in bringing the pair together

    scottishsongguide.com/2015/09/

    #Scottish #literature #song #folksong #Jacobite #18thcentury #19thcentury #RobertBurns #JamesHogg #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotstober #gled

  21. The bauld Pitcur fell in a furr,
    And Clavers gat a clankie, O,
    Or I had fed an Athol gled
    On the braes o’ Killicrankie, O…

    —“Killicrankie”, from James Hogg’s JACOBITE RELICS OF SCOTLAND (1819). Verses 1–3 are attributed to Robert Burns; Hogg may have written the rest

    #Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #RobertBurns #JamesHogg #song #folksong #Jacobite #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotstober #gled

  22. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, & the Scottish Gothic Tradition
    5 Sept, Edinburgh – free

    Dr Emily Alder & Prof Daniel Cook look at how #Frankenstein & the #Gothic permeate #Scottish #literature to this day. Where does #JamesHogg’s ‘Justified Sinner’, #RobertLouisStevenson’s ‘#JekyllandHyde’, or more recent works by Muriel Spark, James Robertson, Alice Thompson, A. L. Kennedy, & Alasdair Gray fit into a Scottish Gothic tradition?

    @litstudies

    #MaryShelley #Frankenstein
    eventbrite.co.uk/e/treasures-m

  23. Devils & Justified Sinners: An Online Conference
    24–25 Aug

    Romancing the Gothic presents its fourth annual online conference, celebrating 200 years of James Hogg’s THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER with a series of talks, events & workshops

    #Scottish #literature #Gothic #19thcentury #JamesHogg

    @litstudies

    eventbrite.co.uk/e/devils-and-

  24. Perambulations of a Justified Sinner
    10–25 Aug, Edinburgh International Book Festival
    £7/£6/£5

    Make your mobile phone a portal back to James Hogg’s Edinburgh, & travel through the Old Town to experience some of his iconic novel’s most important scenes exactly where they were set

    #Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #gothic #romanticism #JamesHogg #JustifiedSinner

    edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/

  25. Devils & Justified Sinners: An Online Conference
    24–25 Aug

    Romancing the Gothic presents its fourth annual online conference, celebrating 200 years of James Hogg’s THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER with a series of talks, events & workshops

    #Scottish #literature #Gothic #19thcentury #JamesHogg

    @litstudies

    eventbrite.co.uk/e/devils-and-