New Double Issue of Studies in Hogg and his World

A new double issue of Studies in Hogg and his World has now been published. The contents are as follows:

Issue No. 25-26, 2015-2016, Ed. H. B. de Groot

H. B. de Groot and Elaine Petrie, Thomas Crawford 1920-2014

ARTICLES

Angela Esterhammer, "Identity Crises and Unaccountable Acts: More Contexts for Hogg's Justified Sinner"

Gillian Hughes, "Hogg's Extremities: Poetry and Advertising"

Gerard Lee McKeever, "'All that I choose to tell you is this': Improvement Confronts the Supernatural in Hogg's Short Fictions"

Ruth Knezevich, "Fronti nulla fides -- that is -- "Put no confidences in Title-pages'": The Responsible Reading of Paratexts in Hogg's Confessions"

Alasdair Thanisch and Peter Thanisch, "James Hog's 'Old Errors digged out of their Graves'"

Thomas Richardson, "'To illustrate something scarcely tangible': The Novels of the Shepherd and L-- of C--d"

NOTES

Graham Tulloch and Judy King, "Two Further James Hogg Letters"

REVIEWS

Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd by James Hogg, edited by Kirsteen Mccue with Janette Currie, and Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs by James Hogg, edited by Kirsteen McCue with Janette Currie and Megan Coyer
Reviewed by C. M. Jackson-Houlston

Introduction and Notes from the Magnum Opus: Waverley to A Legend of the Wars of Montrose by Walter Scott, and Introduction and Notes from the Magnum Opus: Ivanhoe to Castle Dangerous by Walter Scott, edited by J. H. Alexander with P. D. Garside and Claire Lamont
Reviewed by Graham Tulloch

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Vol. 3, The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880 edited by John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor
Reviewed by Ian Duncan

William Maginn and the British Press: A Critical Biography by David E. Latané
Reviewed by Gillian Hughes

Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine: 'An Unprecedented Phenomenon' edited by Robert Morrison and Daniel S. Roberts
Reviewed by Kim Wheatley

Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition by Timothy C. Baker
Reviewed by Caroline McCracken-Flesher

Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Reconstructed by Untitled Projects
Reviewed by Robin MacLachlan

2017 James Hogg Conference Program

The 2017 James Hogg Conference has been an exhilarating one, with a wide and fascinating array of papers exploring new aspects of Hogg's life, works and afterlife. The program below suggests new points of entry into Hogg Studies.

Locating Hogg: July 19-21 2017
University of Stirling Conference Schedule

Wednesday 19 July

From 1600 Registration in Pathfoot exhibition space
From 1700 Reception (Pathfoot exhibition space and C1/C2)
Drinks, followed by buffet

Welcome from the University of Stirling • Adrian Hunter
Introduction to the exhibition: James Hogg in the World
Kirsteen McCue, accompanied by David Hamilton, Hogg’s well-travelled songs

Bruce Gilkison, welcome address: Hogg’s Games in the 21st Century

Thursday 20 July (Pathfoot C1/C2)

0930-1100 Panel A: From Ettrick to the world: Locating Hogg’s literary influence
Chair: Caroline McCracken-Flesher

• Juliet Shields, Hogg, Oliphant, and the Scottish Supernatural Tale 
• Hannah Pyle, Finding Hogg through the ghostly Victorian presence, or; The case of (Patrick) Branwell Bronte 
• Thomas C. Richardson, Locating Hogg in the Literature of the American South 

1100-1120 Break

1120-1230 Panel B: Locating the ‘cameleon’s art’: Confessions and the printed page
Chair: Sharon Alker

• Alasdair Thanisch and Peter Thanisch, The Rise and Fall of Allographic Paratext Surrounding Hogg’s Justified Sinner 
• Jaix Chaix, ‘The Devil Drives His Hogs to an Ill Market’: Direction & Orientation in A Justified Sinner

1230-1330 Lunch 1330-1430

The Douglas Mack Lecture • Penny Fielding, Locating James Hogg in Space and Time, introduced by Ian Duncan

1430-1540

Panel C: Locating ‘Mr A.T. Philosopher’: Hogg and the philosophy of being (in)human

Chair: Thomas C Richardson

• Ian Duncan, Locating Human Nature in Hogg’s Fictional Autobiographies  
• Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Posthuman James Hogg? 

1540-1600 Break

1600-1730 Panel D: ‘A Kaleidoscopic art’: locating Hogg across forms
Chair: Adrian Hunter

• Duncan Hotchkiss, A portable form? Hogg’s short fiction in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 
• David Stewart, Knowing Narratives and Hogg’s Fictional Places 
• Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson, Literally and Figuratively Locating Hogg’s Writings for The Uncollected Works in the Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg 

Friday 21 July (Pathfoot C1/C2)

0920-1050 Panel E: Locating Hogg in Scot(t)land: The politics of early nineteenth-century national cultures

Chair: Duncan Hotchkiss

• Marie Michlova, James Hogg and Sir Walter Scott’s Circle 
• Barbara Leonardi, Locating James Hogg’s and Walter Scott’s Use of Vernacular Voices within Early Nineteenth-Century Englishness 
• Tamara Gosta, ‘Of things half-known, and half-forgot’: Locating James Hogg on the Field of Waterloo

1050-1100 Break

1100-1200 Panel F: ‘He was a gey sensible man for a' the nonsense he wrat’: locating the supernatural Hogg

Chair: Barbara Leonardi

• Robin MacLachlan, ‘Where fell the scathe?’ – Hogg, Witches, and Witchcraft 
• Joshua Dobbs, Re-locating Gil-Martin: Fairies Versus Christianity Within Justified Sinner 

1200-1300 Lunch

1300-1400 Panel G: Tracking Hogg: places and traces

Chair: Suzanne Gilbert

• Bruce Gilkison, Tracking Hogg today: the Borders and Beyond 
• Adrian Hunter, Hogg and Scott’s ‘First’ Meeting: The View from Alice Munro 

1400-1430: Round-table discussion on Hogg studies in the future: Planing New Projects

Chairs: Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker

1440-1530 James Hogg Society AGM

1530 Departure for Stirling tour (from Pathfoot) 1815 Conference Dinner at Hermann’s, in Stirling’s old town

James Hogg Facebook Group

Bridie Ashrowan, a resident of the Ettrick Valley, has established a Facebook Group dedicated to the life and writings of James Hogg:   James Hogg Writer & Poet, The Ettrick Shepherd (1770 -1835). Its members include creative writers, musicians, scholars, students, and fans from across the globe. If you would like to become a member of this public group, go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/1713824505548075/.

Bridie Ashrowan