New Issue of Studies in Hogg and his World Published

 Studies in Hogg and his World 

Issue No. 33–34, 2024–2025

Contents

Special Issue: Unsettling Scottish Literature

ARTICLES

Unsettled ‘Being-in-the-World’: Ontology, Ecology, and Class in James Hogg’s ‘Surpassing Adventures of Allan Gordon’

Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker 

Witnessing, Law, and the Time of the Ghost in James Hogg’s Late Stories

Penny Fielding

Posthumous Revenge and Self-Harm in James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Ellie Hinds 

A Removing Against the Bankrupts: The Hoggs’ Eviction of 1779

Angus Sutherland 

NOTES

The ‘Small River Called Ellan’: Location and Significance of an Unsettling Encounter in James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Alan V. Murray

James Hogg and Francis Jeffrey: A Re-Discovered Letter and its Background

Patrick Scott

REVIEWS

Remediating the 1820s, edited by Jon Mee and Matthew Sangster

Reviewed by Paul Keen

Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel, by Olivia Ferguson

Reviewed by Ian Haywood

Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy: The Feminist Critique of Commercial Modernity, by Catherine Packham

Reviewed by Elizabeth Frazer

Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry: 1793–1803, by Richard E. Matlak

Reviewed by Philip Shaw

Lawrie Todd: or The Settlers in the Woods, by John Galt. Edited by Regina Hewitt

Reviewed by Rhona Brown 

Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century, by Sarah Sharp

Reviewed by Silke Stroh

Regional Romanticism: Literature and Southwest Scotland, c. 1770–1830, by Gerard Lee McKeever

Reviewed by Dana Graham Lai

Bogle Corbet: or the Emigrants, by John Galt. Edited by Katie Trumpener

Reviewed by Holly Faith Nelson

Update: Call for Submissions: Studies in Hogg and his World

Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World 

The next issue of Studies in Hogg and his World is on the subject of “Unsettling Scottish Literature,” with the intentional play on the idea of “unsettling.” This issue is affiliated with the upcoming research workshop Unsettling Scottish Studies, to be held at Simon Fraser University in November 2024, the first international multi-disciplinary workshop dedicated to decolonizing Scottish Studies. However, the issue will include articles, pedagogical papers, and notes that address all sorts of ways that Scottish literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries does, or should, unsettle. 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 September 1, 2025, 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.

Studies in Hogg and his World: Submissions

Contributions to Studies in Hogg and his World should be sent electronically to the Editor, Dr. Holly Faith Nelson (Holly.Nelson@twu.ca). 

We follow the style recommended by the Modern Humanities Research Association (www.mhra.org.uk). All contributions go through a double-blind peer-review process. Books for review should be sent to the Book Review Editor (Dana Graham Lai) at the Department of English, Trinity Western University, 22500 University Drive, Langley, BC V2Y 1Y1.  

Those wishing to join the James Hogg Society (which includes a subscription to this print journal) should write to the Treasurer, Dr. Robin MacLachlan (robin.maclachlan@btinternet.com).

For further information on the James Hogg Society, please contact the secretary of the society, Dr. Holly Faith Nelson (Holly.Nelson@twu.ca). News about Hogg and about the Society can be found at https://jameshoggblog.blogspot.com.

Our primary focus is on the life and work of James Hogg, but we are also interested in the larger world of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Scotland.