With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury James Hogg's most ambitious prose work, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, is now widely acclaimed as his masterpiece. In the early years of the 18th century, Scotland is torn by religious and political strife. Hogg's sinner, justified by his Calvinist conviction that his own salvation is pre-ordained, is suspected of involvement in a series of bizarre and hideous crimes. A century later his memoirs reveal the ...
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With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury James Hogg's most ambitious prose work, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, is now widely acclaimed as his masterpiece. In the early years of the 18th century, Scotland is torn by religious and political strife. Hogg's sinner, justified by his Calvinist conviction that his own salvation is pre-ordained, is suspected of involvement in a series of bizarre and hideous crimes. A century later his memoirs reveal the extraordinary, macabre truth. The tale is chilling for its astute psychological accuracy as it illustrates, with power and economy, the dire effect of self-righteous bigotry on a fanatical character. In the first half of his new introduction David Blair provides a detailed explanation of the historical and religious contexts of Hogg's novel. In the second half he probes the book's brilliant, complex engagement with issues of identity, history and narrative itself.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 0192553194.
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Illustrated by Frontis Ilus MANUSCRIPT. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 5x8" VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD CLIPT(NOPR ICE) DUST JACKET solidly bound, clean & bright; bright GOLD SPINE TITLES with 1" RED title box on dark blue spine cloth. charming light blue dust jacket, showing black wedding type title lines....WHITE ENDPAPERS...***isbn is casually noted in small type at base of back dj cover. not in text of book***; 262pg pages; Includes, intro; note on text; bibliog. chronology of author....Text has many of the charming original Spellings and Capitalizations of the original text. "NOVEL'S intricacy is increased by a mirroring technique, repeated confrontations of Scots-and English speaking characters. Scots course but splendid..