Tales of the Wars of Montrose

by James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (Editor)

Overview

In Tales of the Wars of Montrose Hogg continues his examination of Scotland's past. Using different narrators and different moods in each of the five tales that comprise the work, Hogg leads the reader into (and eventually out of) a state of anarchy and confusion in his native country.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748606351
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	02/01/1996
Series:	The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg , #4
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. He is best known for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

Gillian Hughes, Independent Scholar, has been a General Editor of the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg, and is currently an advisory editor for the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry and for the New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. She has published critical editions of works by each of these writers, and also a biography of James Hogg.

Editorial Reviews

Almost everything about the Stirling/South Carolina edition inspires confidence, and the lucidity, thoroughness and sheer good sense of Gillian Hughes' introduction and critical apparatus is likely to reinforce readers' feeling that they are in safe hands.

From the Publisher

Tales of the Wars of Montrose is a big book about a big historical period, and it positions Hogg strongly in the line of historical writers who require to be taken seriously.

Ian Campbell

Tales of the Wars of Montrose, too, though held together by internal connections and the common historical context, displays a similar delight in literary form, beginning with the conscious imitation of Defoe, ‘Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of an Edinburgh Baillie Written by himself’. The dates and details of the opening narrative (admirably glossed by Gillian Hughes) enable Hogg to follow Defoe in exploring the relationship between literature and history, truth and fiction, while also creating a foundation for the subsequent tales of romantic intrigue, Ossianic tragedy, adventure and vendetta all over Scotland. It is hard to imagine a tale less like the Edinburgh Baillie’s memoirs than that of ‘Sir Simon Brodie’, whose quixotic adventures include being thrown overboard in the Firth of Forth by the Duke of Argyll and rescued from his predicament by an amorous seal

Fiona Stafford

A necessary and commendable effort to present... [Hogg's] entire corpus in a welcome research edition.

Scotia - Rhona Brown

A necessary and commendable effort to present... [Hogg's] entire corpus in a welcome research edition.

— Rhona Brown

Scotia: Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies

Displays a... delight in literary form... the opening narrative exploring the relationship between literature and history, truth and fiction, while also creating a foundation for the subsequent tales of romantic intrigue, Ossianic tragedy, adventure and vendetta all over Scotland.

— Fiona Stafford

Review of English Studies

Tales of the Wars of Montrose is a big book about a big historical period, and it positions Hogg strongly in the line of historical writers who require to be taken seriously.

— Ian Campbell

Notes & Queries

A necessary and commendable effort to present... [Hogg's] entire corpus in a welcome research edition.

— Rhona Brown

Scotia