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Tuesday 9 July 2024
Ettrick and Yarrow Community Development Company: Upcoming Guided Walk
Tuesday 4 June 2024
Edinburgh International Book Festival: 200 Years of the James Hogg's 'Justified Sinner'
2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. To mark the anniversary, this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival includes a special series of six events, which, according to its website, ‘re-examine and reimagine this story, and its bold exploration of the darkest parts of the human soul’.
Events highlighted on the website include:
Grid Iron’s immersive audio and video journey bringing to life pivotal moments from the novel, rescripted by award-winning author Louise Welsh.
New Myths, in which storyteller Kirsty Logan, folksinger Kirsty Law and harpist Esther Swift reimagine the novel in contemporary times through the story of Gillian Tod, who grows up in a cult, drawing on everything from Scottish folk history, feminism and Naomi Klein.
A further layer added to the 2013 theatre piece Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner, when its writer and director reconstruct the text, and their original production, in a Performance Essay in co-production with National Theatre of Scotland for ‘a suitably meta-interpretation that is part-lecture, part-documentary, part-theatre’.
Ian Rankin and Ever Dundas in a Justified Sinner Book Club panel discussion, Cut Up the Justified Sinner poetry workshops, and a special Close Read event with James Robertson, author of the Confessions-influenced novel The Testament of Gideon Mack.
Further details of the Justified Sinner events can be found at https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/themes/confessions-374 null
This year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival runs from 10-25 August. Full details of the programme, including how to book, are on the Festival website https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on Booking opens on 20 June.
Sunday 19 May 2024
New Issue of Studies in Hogg and his World
Studies in Hogg and his World
Issue Numbers 31-32, 2022-2023
ARTICLES
The Ettrick Shepherd Across the British
Empire
Barbara
Leonardi
Identifying Gil-Martin: A Fairy Reading of
Hogg’s Justified Sinner
Joshua
Dobbs
James Hogg in the Ettrick Landscape
Louise
Murray, Stephen Pierpoint, and D’Maris Coffman
NOTES
Characterising
John Galt’s ‘Bandana’
Regina Hewitt
Further Light on
Hogg and the Laidlaws
Gillian
Hughes
REVIEWS
Gerard Lee McKeever, Dialectics
of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786–1831
Reviewed by Kenneth
McNeil
Kenneth
McNeil, Scottish Romanticism and Collective Memory in the British Atlantic
Reviewed
by Megan Coyer
Barbara
Leonardi, Marriage in James Hogg’s Work: Plotting for Gender, Class, and
Ethnic Equality
Reviewed
by Meiko O’Halloran
Murray Pittock, Scotland:
The Global History 1603 to the Present
Reviewed by Richard Finlay
The
Ayrshire Legatees, The Steam-Boat, The Gathering of the West, by
John Galt
Edited
by Mark Parker
Reviewed
by Craig Lamont
Contributions
to Scottish Periodicals, by James Hogg
Edited
by Graham Tulloch and Judy King
Reviewed
by Holly Faith Nelson
Peter’s Letters to
his Kinsfolk, by John Gibson Lockhart
Edited
by P. D. Garside and Gillian Hughes
Reviewed by Nick Smith
Monday 23 October 2023
ITV News: "Remembering the Life and Work of Scottish poet James Hogg"
Sunday 9 April 2023
Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World (Fall 2023 Issue)
Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World
For its next issue, Studies in Hogg and his World seeks articles on works composed by a wide range of Scottish authors during the years that James Hogg was actively publishing: 1801-1835. Articles on Scottish working-class and / or women authors are especially welcome, as are those that connect the works of the Scottish author under study with those of Hogg (although this is not essential). As usual, the journal also seeks articles on the life and writings of Hogg for the upcoming issue, which is scheduled for publication in the Fall of 2023. Studies in Hogg and his World is a peer-reviewed print journal. Therefore, all articles, pedagogical papers, and notes submitted will undergo the double-blind peer review process. Submissions should be made on or before May 30, 2023 to Dr. Holly Faith Nelson at Holly.Nelson@twu.ca.
About Studies in Hogg and his World
Studies in Hogg and his World was established in 1990. Its founding editor was Dr Gillian Hughes, the eminent James Hogg scholar, author of James Hogg: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2007), and editor, co-editor, or associate editor of a great many volumes of Hogg's works for the Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg. Dr Hughes edited twenty-one issues of Studies in Hogg in his World before handing over the editorship in 2010 to Dr Hans de Groot (1939-2019), Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto, the editor of the Stirling / South Carolina edition of James Hogg's Highland Journeys, and author of scholarly articles and book chapters on Hogg's works. With the passing of Dr de Groot in 2019, the editorship was taken up by Dr Holly Faith Nelson, Professor of English at Trinity Western University, co-editor, with Dr. Sharon Alker, of James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author (Ashgate, 2009; Routledge, 2018), and co-author, with Dr Alker, of a series of articles and book chapters on the life and works of James Hogg published over the past two decades.
Friday 24 March 2023
"The First Complete Edition of Peter’s Letters since 1819" Available Soon
There is exciting news in the world of Lockhart Studies!
It has been more than 200 years since a complete edition of Peter's Letters to his Kinsolk has been published! A new edition -- edited, annotated, and introduced by esteemed scholars of Scottish Romanticism, P.D. Garside and Gillian Hughes -- will soon be available at Edinburgh University Press. For more information and a 30% discount, see the flyer below.
Sunday 27 November 2022
James Hogg’s “The Royal Jubilee: A Scottish Mask”
Here is the Scottish Poetry Library's advertisement for an upcoming event you may be interested in attending if you are in Edinburgh on December 2, 2022.
James Hogg’s “The Royal Jubilee: A Scottish Mask”
A rehearsed reading, with songs
There are fairies, and brownies, and shades Amazonian,
Of harper, and sharper, and old Cameronian:—
Some small as pigmies,—some tall as a steeple,—
The spirits are all gone as mad as the people.
—James Hogg, “The Royal Jubilee”