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James Hogg and British Romanticism : a kaleidoscopic art

Title
James Hogg and British Romanticism : a kaleidoscopic art / Meiko O'Halloran.
Author
O'Halloran, Meiko, 1976-
Publication
Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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Book/TextUse in library JFD 16-275Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description
xi, 308 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"The book argues for Hogg's centrality to British Romanticism, resituating his work in relation to Romantic contemporaries who include Byron, Blake, Scott, Baillie, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, and Keats, and tracing his important inter-textual relationships to predecessors such as Spenser, Shakespeare, Johnson, Sterne, Gray, Collins, Macpherson, and Burns. Hogg creates a unique literary style which, the author argues, is best described as 'kaleidoscopic' in view of its similarities with David Brewster's kaleidoscope, invented in 1816. This ambitious and ground-breaking study not only sheds new light on Hogg's relationship with British Romanticism, but urges a re-thinking of Romanticism itself. It offers original new critical readings of a spectrum of Hogg's key works in a range of genres, demonstrating how his kaleidoscopic literary practice unsettles and reshapes our canonical understanding of the Romantic period and his place in it"--
Subject
  • Hogg, James, 1770-1835 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Hogg, James, 1770-1835
  • English literature > Scottish authors > History and criticism
  • Romanticism
  • Romanticism > Great Britain
  • Change in literature
  • LITERARY CRITICISM / General
  • LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  • LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
  • English literature > Scottish authors
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Reclaiming Hogg's Place in British Romanticism -- 1. Hogg's Self-Positioning: The Poetic Mirror and the Literary Marketplace -- 2. Hogg's Eighteenth-Century Inheritance: The Queen's Wake, National Epic, and Imagined Ancestries -- 3. By Accident and Design: Burns, Shakespeare, and Hogg's Kaleidoscopic Techniques, from the Theatre and The Poetic Mirror to Queen Hynde -- 4. Exploding Authority and Inheritance: Reading the Confessions of a Justified Sinner as a Kaleidoscopic Novel -- 5. Imploding the Nation: Aesthetic Conflict in Tales of the Wars of Montrose -- Conclusion: Expanding the Range of Romanticism.
Call Number
JFD 16-275
ISBN
  • 9781137559043 (hardback)
  • 1137559047 (hardback)
LCCN
2015023384
OCLC
915774417
Author
O'Halloran, Meiko, 1976- author.
Title
James Hogg and British Romanticism : a kaleidoscopic art / Meiko O'Halloran.
Publisher
Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 16-275
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