Sharon-Ruth Alker and Holly Faith Nelson
Ashgate
Hardback
250
Responding to the resurgence of interest in the Scottish working-class writer James Hogg Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson offer the first edited collection devoted to a critical examination of his writings and their position in the Edinburgh and London literary marketplaces. The contributors examine Hogg's work Scottish Romanticism and the figure of the working-class author through the filter of recent theories on oral culture print culture nationalism transnationalism colonialism new historicism psychology intertextuality and the politics of genre.
Ashgate
Hardback
250
Responding to the resurgence of interest in the Scottish working-class writer James Hogg Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson offer the first edited collection devoted to a critical examination of his writings and their position in the Edinburgh and London literary marketplaces. The contributors examine Hogg's work Scottish Romanticism and the figure of the working-class author through the filter of recent theories on oral culture print culture nationalism transnationalism colonialism new historicism psychology intertextuality and the politics of genre.