For a video on James Hogg and the Scottish Borders, see ITV News article and video on "Remembering the Life and Work of Scottish poet James Hogg" (26 July 2023): https://www.itv.com/news/border/2023-07-26/remembering-the-life-and-work-of-scottish-poet-james-hogg Learn about the new Hogg trail which Barbara Harrison, from the area's Tourist Association describes as follows: "What we wanted to do was to develop a route around the valleys that would showcase the valleys through the eyes of James Hogg and his poetry and the places he lived and worked."
Monday 23 October 2023
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
Friday 2 December, 7 p.m., Scottish Poetry Library, Canongate, Edinburgh. Tickets £5.
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”
On 14 August 1822, as George IV arrived on his ‘jaunt’ to Edinburgh, James Hogg published a new play: “The Royal Jubilee: A Scottish Mask”. The Jubilee is set – like key scenes in Hogg’s best-known work The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – on Arthur’s Seat. This live rehearsed reading with songs is – in the absence of any evidence otherwise –the first time the play has ever been performed since its publication 200 years ago.
Introduced by Valentina Bold (who edited the “Jubilee” in 1994) and Kirsteen McCue (editor of Hogg’s Songs), the reading will be by a cast including Jo Miller, Dolina MacLennan, Ajay Close, Sheena Wellington and SPL director Asif Khan.
Wednesday 9 November 2022
Treasure Trove of Letters Discovered: James Hogg Connection
A discovery has been made of hundreds of letters written by a lawyer, George Craig, from the Scottish borders to myriad correspondents. James Hogg was among his clientele. To read more on this discovery, click on the link to the BBC News article 'Long Lost Letters Shine New Light on 1800s Borders Life.'
Sunday 3 July 2022
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 25 February 2022
New Issue of Studies in Hogg and his World
Issues 29-30 (2020-2021)
Contents
Douglas Gifford 1940-2020
DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR INVITED ESSAY
Extreme
Pastoral: James Hogg and Other Animals
Ian Duncan
ARTICLES
Hogg
and Hogg, Hogg on Hogg: Finding a Place in the Pantheon of Poets
Graham Tulloch
An
Ettrick Shepherd in London: Bringing the Margins to the Metropolis
Duncan Hotchkiss
The Plagues o’ the Land: James Hogg, Witchcraft, and the Unsettling of Enlightenment Narratives of History in ‘The Witches of Traquair’ and ‘The Hunt of Eildon’
Mari Ulvestad Komnaes
NOTE
Further Letters from Hogg to the Laidlaws of
Blackhouse
Gillian Hughes
REVIEWS
Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field, by Walter Scott
Edited by Ainsley McIntosh
The Shorter Poems, by Walter Scott
Edited by P. D. Garside and Gillian Hughes
Reviewed by Graham Tulloch
Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century: Eleven Case Studies from ‘Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine’
Edited
by Nicholas Mason and Tom Mole
Reviewed by Thomas C. Richardson
Contributions to English, Irish, and American Periodicals
Edited
by Adrian Hunter, with associate editor Barbara Leonardi
Reviewed by Dana Graham Lai
Daniel
Cook, Walter Scott and Short Fiction
Reviewed
by Graham Tulloch
Some
Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair, Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle, by
John Gibson Lockhart
Edited
by Thomas C. Richardson
Reviewed
by Robin MacLachlan
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