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James Hogg and British Romanticism A Kaleidoscopic Art Meiko O’Halloran Lecturer in Romantic Literature, Newcastle University, UK

© Meiko O’Halloran 2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-55904-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-56429-3 ISBN 978-1-137-55905-0 (eBook)

DOI 10.1057/9781137559050 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data O’Halloran, Meiko, 1976– James Hogg and British Romanticism : a kaleidoscopic art / Meiko O’Halloran. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Hogg, James, 1770–1835—Criticism and interpretation. 2. English literature—Scottish authors—History and criticism. 3. Romanticism. 4. Romanticism—Great Britain. 5. Change in literature. I. Title. PR4792.O38 2015 2015023384 821 .7—dc23

For my Mother and in memory of Karl Miller

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Contents

Acknowledgements

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List of Abbreviations

x

Introduction: Reclaiming Hogg’s Place in British Romanticism

1

1 Hogg’s Self-Positioning in The Poetic Mirror and the Literary Marketplace

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2 Hogg’s Eighteenth-Century Inheritance: The Queen’s Wake, National Epic and Imagined Ancestries

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3 By Accident and Design: Burns, Shakespeare and Hogg’s Kaleidoscopic Techniques, from the Theatre and The Poetic Mirror to Queen Hynde

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4 Exploding Authority and Inheritance: Reading the Confessions of a Justified Sinner as a Kaleidoscopic Novel

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