Contributions to Annuals and Gift-Books - Hogg, James
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A collection of rare Hogg poems and stories, gathered together from the original Annuals The Annuals of the 1820s and 1830s, like their modern counterparts, were designed as Christmas and New Year's presents. These attractive pocket-sized compilations of poetry, prose and engravings for drawing-room display recruited well-known authors such as James Hogg, Walter Scott, L.E.L., and John Clare, their work appearing alongside that of young hopefuls such as Alfred Tennyson. In drawing together Hogg's work for the Annuals and in providing the appropriate context the editors shed new light on Hogg's…mehr

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A collection of rare Hogg poems and stories, gathered together from the original Annuals The Annuals of the 1820s and 1830s, like their modern counterparts, were designed as Christmas and New Year's presents. These attractive pocket-sized compilations of poetry, prose and engravings for drawing-room display recruited well-known authors such as James Hogg, Walter Scott, L.E.L., and John Clare, their work appearing alongside that of young hopefuls such as Alfred Tennyson. In drawing together Hogg's work for the Annuals and in providing the appropriate context the editors shed new light on Hogg's working practices and his relations with editors and artists. Material that was previously scattered in rare volumes and in manuscripts is united here and the editors also make a solid contribution to knowledge of the Annual publishing phenomenon itself. This collection highlights a coherent part of Hogg's total literary output, and in doing so provides new insights to an increasingly popular area of nineteenth-century publishing history, making the volume an important addition to the series.
The Annuals of the 1820s and 1830s, like their modern counterparts, were designed as Christmas and New Year's presents. The latest developments in printing and book design were employed in the preparation of these attractive pocket-sized compilations of poetry, prose and engravings for drawing-room display. Well-known authors such as James Hogg, Walter Scott, L.E.L., and John Clare were eagerly recruited and handsomely paid as contributors, their work appearing alongside that of young hopefuls such as Alfred Tennyson. In drawing together Hogg's work for the Annuals and in providing the appropriate context the editors shed new light on Hogg's working practices and his relations with editors and artists, uniting material hitherto scattered in rare volumes and in manuscripts and making a solid contribution to knowledge of the Annual publishing phenomenon itself. Several new versions of Hogg's tales and poems are included in Contributions to Literary Annuals, which also reproduces the music and illustrations that accompanied them. The range of Hogg's contributions is surprising -- family poems ("An Aged Widow's Lament"), an outpouring of patriotic feeling ("The Harp of Ossian"), traditional stories of devils and ghosts ("The Border Chronicler"), an exemplification of divine justice ("The Cameronian Preacher's Tale"), and an account of group psychology ("A Psychological Curiosity"). The volume also includes a group of pieces contributed to Annuals designed primarily for children, and these are supplemented by a reprinting of the gift-book he dedicated to his own family, A Father's New Year's Gift. Contributions to Literary Annuals highlights a coherent part of Hogg's total literary output, and in doing so provides new insights to an increasingly popular area of nineteenth-century publishing history.
Autorenporträt
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. Janette Currie is MHRA Research Fellow in the Department of English Studies at the University of Stirling. Gillian Hughes is Advisory Editor to The New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. She was editor and/or general editor for many volumes in the Stirling/South Carolina Hogg edition, founding editor of the journal Studies in Hogg and his World, and is the author of James Hogg: A Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). Her current projects include an edition (co-edited with Peter Garside) of the Shorter Verse of Walter Scott .