Research Catalog

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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Details

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