The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (New York Review Books Classics)

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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a startling tale of murder and madness set in a time of troubles like our own. Robert Wringhim is a religious fanatic: one of God's chosen who believes himself free to disregard the strictures of morality—a view in which he is much encouraged by the elusive, peculiarly striking foreigner who becomes his dearest friend. Describing the seductive mutual dependence of these soulmates and the way—efficient at first, then increasingly intoxicated—they go about settling scores with their (and of course God's) enemies, James Hogg presents a powerful picture of evil in the world and in the heart and mind. This work of black humor, acute psychological insight, and, in the end, deeply compassionate humanity is one of the masterpieces of literature in English.

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THis book is awesome. .......2007-07-31

I loved the comedic narrative that starts off the book; it's a colorful and richly detailed black comedy that youd expect from HAWTHORN- making fun of the clash between overly zealous religious funamentalists and more earthy rural folk. As the story progresses it decends into a dramatic/tragic tone that I would compare to CHARLES BROCKDON BROWN.

then the story breaks into the second part.

THe change to the killers perspective/narrative is a huge unexpected leap that I would have to compare to RASHOMON. It describes many of the same events with such a dramatic shift of emphasis that you almost do not recognize the scenes. Some of the multi perspective breaks are funny, some are chilling.

THis killers perspective is brilliant; he's a realistically depicted schizophrenic serial killer that filters his agression through religious delusion. It reminds me of the movie NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, mixed with KILLER INSIDE ME. He also has a DR JEKYLE MR HYDE split personality that reminds me of FIGHT CLUB.

I have experience with schizos and have had the joy of being targeted by a psychopath... the realistic portrayal of mental illness in this book is impressive.

Doppleganger.......2007-03-16

Is Robert a schizophrenic to be pitied or a psychopath to be loathed?
Similar to Dostoyevsky's psychodrama, The Double, we find the exhileration of the psyche brought bare before our perusal. James Hogg's two part account of a "sinner" (a predestined and chosen one albeit) is on surface a derisive gothic narrative of the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination. The taut trance-like animated lustre it creates is exceptionally haunting. The author succeeds in invoking the sublime and supernatural within the fragile make-up of a psyche twisted and enlightened by the religious zeal it professes. If Percy Shelley found the tale as insightful as any upopn the workings of the mind it was primarily because of the tenacity of the precepts which justify the sinner's actions and provoke his behavior. A landscape of horrific charge stages a mind terrifying and a depth where foundations are dug to the root and these dragged with a vengence upon the highest peaks of a reprobates mind. Similar to the Marquis De Sade - studies on sexual allusions between the protagonist and the devil are amusing and should be dabbled into - in its use of reason to legitimize otherwise deplorable executions of conscience; this narrative strikes a balance between two accounts of the same fratricide and ensuing murders, where we are left dizzy and confused and thrown into a state of mind persecuted by truth and the mind's ability to obviate the most simple excesses as they are practiced and divined. At times we question the existence of the double, and on other occasions we are in awe of his personality and presence. The second account is of greater psychological depth and makes one confide with the mind of a murderer propelled by his faith. However we cannot but continue to query our sensibility imputing greed and a rationalizing tendency at play. The author's ambiguity make for rewarding continued readings for this is indeed a psychological analysis of exceptional powers.
Beautiful and unbelievable, wonderful and frightening. A pleasure to read and a wonder to study.
Of related study is Anthony Burgess' Enderby Trilogy, where the novel and Hogg are assimilated; the execution of the novel is very much in tune with the madness of James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

Synopsis: A supernatural psychological thriller.......2007-02-08

The story of James Hogg's "Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner" describes events 100 years before Hogg's own lifetime, and revolves around Robert Wringhim, a young man with a questionable paternal origin, and confused religious principles. His mother and her husband George Colwan have fathered his older half-brother George, but Robert appears to be the product of his mother's unchastity with the fanatic Revd Robert Wringhim. This minister becomes his surrogate father and mentor, and begins instilling in young Robert the conviction that those who are predestined to eternal life cannot sin, and that the reprobate are to be despised: "To the wicked all things are wicked; but to the just, all things are just and right ... How delightful to think that a justified person can do no wrong."(p9) The first third of the book purports to be an unnamed editor's narrative, recounting the conflict between the two brothers, and the eventual murder of George under dubious and mysterious circumstances.

The mystery is uncovered in the remainder of the book, which contains the alleged first-hand account of young Robert's memoirs and confessions. (Warning: plot spoilers ahead) Here Hogg excels in painting a dark and supernatural portrait of the mind of Robert, as he is overcome by demonic powers. His father's teaching becomes the breeding ground for his twisted theology. Initially Robert is fearful of unchangeable rejection by God: "I lived in a hopeless and deplorable state of mind; for I said to myself, `If my name is not written in the book of life from all eternity, it is in vain for me to presume that either vows or prayers of mine, or those of all mankind combined, can ever procure its insertion now.'" (p69) Finally Robert's father claims to have received secret revelation giving assurance of election: "he embraced me, and welcomed me into the community of the just upon earth." The assurance of acceptance by God is understood by Robert to mean "that I was now a justified person, adopted among the number of God's children - my name written in the Lamb's book of life, and that no by-past transgression, nor any future act of my own, or of other men, could be instrumental in altering the decree." (p79)

From this point Robert's memoirs become "a relation of great and terrible actions, done in the might, and by the commission of heaven." (p.79) Under the tutelage of his father, Robert's mind is already open to religious bigotry: "Seeing that God had from all eternity decided the fate of every individual that was to be born of woman, how was it in man to endeavour to save those whom their Maker had, by an unchangeable decree, doomed to destruction." (p.85) His antinomian thinking is nurtured and encouraged by a mysterious nameless companion who enters Robert's life, and becomes his mentor and friend, and encourages Robert's notion that as one of the righteous his divinely-appointed mission and task is to destroy the wicked with the sword. The things that Robert's companion "strove most to inculcate on my mind were the infallibility of the elect, and the preordination of all things that come to pass."(p87).

Although Robert perceives his companion to be a great prince with many subjects, possibly even the Czar of Russia, it gradually becomes clear that it is in fact an incarnation of the Prince of Darkness, Satan, disguised as an angel of light. (A common interpretation that it is purely psychological figment of Robert's imagination, possibly even a multiple personality, is impossible because several individuals in the novel witness him as a physical presence alongside Robert, so clearly he exists outside Robert's mind.) Robert initially seems to question the fact that Gil-Martin - the name the mysterious stranger eventually gives himself - has the unearthly ability to take appearances of others, and that he refuses to pray (p88). His corrupting influence over Robert's mind increases, until Robert finds that he is unable to account for large amounts of time, and where he is accused of doing things about which he knows nothing. Slowly he becomes cognitive of the fact that Gil-Martin not only can present himself as another person (even Robert himself), but at times controls Robert totally by entering him. Robert first suggests that he has "two souls, which take possession of my bodily frame by turns" (p132) but Gil-Martin eventually presents the truth: "I am wedded to you so closely that I feel as if I were the same person. Our essences are one, our bodies and spirits being united ... and, wherever you are, there must my presence be with you."(p158). Not only does Gil-Martin incite Robert to murderous acts against others, but eventually even against his own life, certain that his divine fate is unchangeable, "for he has me fully convinced that no act of mine can mar the eternal counsel, or in the smallest degree alter or extenuate one event which was decreed before the foundations of the world were laid." (p164). Ironically, in his post-script remarks recounting the discovery of Robert's grave 100 years later, the unnamed editor (the book was originally published anonymously, and Hogg himself appears as one of the characters) suggests a different fate for Robert, since by the act of suicide he had "committed that act for which, according to the tenets he embraced, there was no remission, and which consigned his memory and his name to everlasting detestation."(p175).

-GODLY GADFLY (April 2002)

NB: for my analysis of this book, see my review (dated April 26, 2002) of ISBN#1590170253.

Completely Misrepresents Predestination & Runs Many a Rabbit Trail!.......2005-10-10

I tried to like this novel because as one who believes in predestination, I thought it would show some of the opposing arguments in fictional form; it failed to do this. James Hogg merely shows us a deranged human being (nothing new there!) who murders because he feels that he is 'destined for heaven' no matter what he does. Yes, he might have been saved from the fires of hell, but it would have been by God's grace, not by his own good or evil works. Isn't this what the New Testament is all about-grace in spite of man's evil doing? Whether one is predestined or 'chooses good or evil' makes no difference in the end-what matters is who saves you from your own mortal destiny which is death. This story fails to show any unique theological and/or psychological perspective. I was dissatisfied with the author's far-fetched and anti-logical presentation of a doctrine he clearly did not understand.

None better.......2004-08-05

The depth of this novel is amazing. Visit Edinburgh on a misty night and you will see it is not set in the past.

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'Infinite Riches In a Little Book'

The Shepherd's Calendar
James Hogg
Manufacturer: Edinburgh University Press
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Winter Evening Tales (Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg)

ASIN: 0748663169

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James Hogg is one of the acknowledged masters of the short story. Some of his best stories appeared in The Shepherd's Calendar, a work of the 1820s in which he sets out to re-create on paper the manner and the content of the traditional oral storytelling of Ettrick Forest, the remote and mountainous sheep-farming district in which he grew up. Like Hogg's masterpiece The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, several of the stories from The Shepherd's Calendar deal disturbingly and hauntingly with the supernatural, and explore psychological depths with a remarkable insight and intensity. The Shepherd's Calendar also draws on Hogg's experiences as a young shepherd in the 1790s as it produces a convincing and very human picture of the dangers, the pleasures, and the tensions of the lives of the rural poor in Scotland in the years that followed the French Revolution. This Polygon paperback is based on the acclaimed hardback edition of The Shepherd's Calendar for the Stirling / South Carolina Collected Works of James Hogg (Edinburgh University Press, 1995).

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'Infinite Riches In a Little Book'.......2004-07-31

The Shepherd's Calendar, James Hogg, (ed. Douglas S. Mack), Edinburgh University Press, 2002, 287pp.

This book is a paperback re-issue from the 1995 Stirling / South Carolina edition of the `Collected Works of James Hogg', and the overall package which it contains is almost too generous: thirteen short stories written by one of the world's greatest masters of the form, a literary introduction, an essay on the development of `The Shepherd's Calendar', a select bibliography, a chronology of Hogg's life (compiled by Gillian Hughes), extensive end-notes, and a six hundred word Scots / English glossary. The apparatus of any such work is of great value, but especially so in Hogg's case, as, with this book, we are getting for the first time in history, access to the stories as he actually wrote them, without the bowdlerising hand of editors. But of course, the book's real treasure lies in the stories themselves.
They are divided into classes (although as the text now stands, enumerations are not always consecutive); the first deals with storms, the second with `Deaths, Judgements and Providences', the next few with dogs, lasses, and general anecdotes; then comes `Dreams and Apparitions', and the last focuses on `Fairies, Brownies and Witches' (a forte of Hogg's). The largest class, by a narrow margin, is `Dreams and Apparitions'. This, indeed, is hardly surprising given what most readers will already know about Hogg's deep and, for his time, remarkably modern insights in to the human psyche. But every section exhibits a charm and genius of its own. The book opens at a high level of excellence, with Hogg narrating a veritable meteorological history of bygone times, including a tale about a storm which he himself endured as a shepherd.
In the next class, 'Robb Dodds' is a tale from oral tradition, narrated by the shepherd, Auld Andrew, of an unresolved mystery which has at its roots the cruelty of Tam Linton, and which ends in horror and retribution. Cruelty, and the vengeance it calls forth, is also at the heart of `Mr Adamson of Laverhope'; this takes as its subject matter a farmer whose egregious behaviour apparently results in his being struck by lightning, whereupon his bowels gush out, and his corpse collapses into what seems to be a ready-made grave. The `General anecdotes' section, though of deep interest, lessens the dramatic intensity of the collection with some interesting diversions, but here it is a comedy, `The Lasses', dealing with `Window Wat''s and `Jock the Jewel''s attempts to win the hand of the `bonny Snaw-fleck', that reveals best the complex machinery of Hogg's narrative technique.
It is fitting that the next two tales, which are probably the most major, `George Dobson's Expedition to Hell and The Soutars of Selkirk', and `Tibby Hislop's Dream', come right at the centre of the collection. The former, indeed, is two tales in one, the linking device being the name of the central character. It refers to two different people, but since the blurring of identities (shades of `The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner'), is a central concern of the tale's latter part, this form of artifice is again especially appropriate. In the opening, which draws upon an eerie tradition of the descent into the underworld, the real and supernatural realms impinge upon each other in a way that suggests the pervasive power of the latter; in `The Soutars', a contorted conundrum of events revolves around the prejudices contained in old Scots songs. `Tibby Hislop's Dream', which for me contains echoes of Henryson and Lindsay, deals with the gory end of the corrupt `Gibby Gledger', whose innards are devoured by birds. It is a `just-deserts' tale, par excellence, but read it for yourself.
`Smithy Cracks', although it is suitably ghoulish, eerie and mysterious, is a rare tale in which the rational interpretation of events wins out over the natural assumptions of folklore. But `The Laird of Cassway', `Mary Burnet' and `The Witches of Traquair' decidedly place the emphasis again upon supernatural events. In `The Laird', the ancient tale of mortal enmity between two brothers, mingles with the Scottish witch-story; in `Mary Burnet', vengeance is visited upon a seducing rogue in a parable which is heavily reliant on the Scots ballads; and `The Witches', an old Catholic morality tale, complete with allegorical characters, uses genuine historical figures (George Wishart and David Beaton appear) to `earth' the fantastic firmly in Scottish soil.
The climax of the collection, however, comes with the brilliant `The Brownie of the Black Haggs'. For those who do not know it already; it concerns itself, superficially at least, with the monomaniac obsessions of Lady Wheelhope, whose implacable hatred for an interfering brownie, the `evil Merodach of Babylon', knows no bounds. But in its sub-text, it explores sado-masochistic sexuality, in quasi-biblical language, and combines all of this with copious allusions to Scottish history and shepherd's lore. Given this brief for a creative endeavour, any potential short-story writer could be forgiven for thinking it an impossible task, but, evidently, not so the great `Ettrick Shepherd'.
Hogg's use of Scots has been analysed before now, but it might be well to end with a reference to this feature of his writing. Hogg's Scots dialogue is of an exceptionally accomplished order, and there's no doubt that everything here is the `real MacKay'. His imprecatory registers are, by far and away, the most powerful, (although everything is authentic and natural). As Wattie says to Bessie, in a famous phrase: `... but nipping an' scarting are Scots folk's wooing'!. If ever you wanted `infinite riches' in a little book, James Hogg's `The Shepherd's Calendar' certainly comes close to containing them.

Altrive Tales (Collected Works of James Hogg)

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Altrive Tales (Collected Works of James Hogg)
James Hogg
Manufacturer: Edinburgh University Press
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ASIN: 0748618937

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Altrive Tales was carefully prepared by Hogg in 1832 as the opening volume in a planned twelve-volume collected prose fiction series, intended as the culmination of his career as a storyteller. It opens with his own story of how a ragged servant-lad remade himself as a respected professional writer, the associate of Byron, Scott, Southey, Wordsworth and Galt. Hogg's frank and humorous 'Memoir of the Author's Life' is widely recognised as a classic of Romantic autobiography and an important record of early nineteenth-century Scottish culture. Hogg's sharp eye for the latest publishing phenomena and pawky self-mocking humour is evident in his awareness of Altrive Tales as a contribution to the monthly-volume classic fiction series of the early 1830s following Sir Walter Scott's magnum opus edition of the Waverley Novels. Frankly pleading guilty to the egotism of presenting his own output to the world as a literary classic Hogg engagingly confesses, 'I like to write about myself: in fact, there are few things which I like better [...]'.

The themes of the 'Memoir' continue in the tales that follow. 'The Adventures of Captain John Lochy' is a fast-paced historical fiction, the autobiography of a social outcast adrift in Scotland, Russia, the Netherlands, and Sweden. 'The Pongos' (an early version of the Tarzan story) takes a look at Scottish involvement in the British empire in a comic parody of Enlightenment notions about the nature of man and of society. 'Marion's Jock' is a virtuoso exercise in Scots and in Hogg's ability to communicate the peasant lifestyle of his native Scottish Borders.

This new edition, thoughtfully introduced and extensively annotated, presents Altrive Tales as a major achievement by one of Scotland's finest storytellers.

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A Man of the People Looks Fondly at Sir Walter Scott, His Friend

Anecdotes of Scott
James Hogg
Manufacturer: Edinburgh University Press
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James Hogg knew Sir Walter Scott well, and after Scott's death in 1832 he wrote an affectionate but frank account of their long friendship. John Gibson Lockhart, Scott's son-in-law and official biographer, declared himself to be filled with "utter disgust and loathing" at the "beastly and abominable things" within it. Hogg withdrew the manuscript from publication, but later arranged for the U.S. publication of an extensively revised version. Jill Rubenstein has produced a meticulous new edition which includes both versions. She provides a wealth of new information about these lively, readable, idiosyncratic, and disconcerting texts.

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A Man of the People Looks Fondly at Sir Walter Scott, His Friend.......2007-02-03

When he was 30 years old, Sir Walter Scott went in search of a simple Lowland Scotch shepherd named James Hogg. Scott was pursuing old ballads of the Borderlands and had heard that Hogg knew many himself and that his friends and relatives knew many more. This rumor proved true and within minutes a friendship began spanning three more decades until Scott's death in 1832.

Scott saw more literary talent in "the Ettrick Shepherd" than the shepherd initially did in himself. Under Scott's guidance, Hogg created ballads of great power and popularity. Scott was almost rudely critical of Hogg's prose tales, but Hogg won popularity for those as well. And Sir Walter was not shy about proudly introducing his rural friend into aristocratic and literary circles of Scotland and England.

Glimpses of Scott at work and play, in good and bad health, drinking with friends and romping with children and grandchildren are scattered through Hogg's little Memoirs of his world-famous friend. They seem to have quarreled often about their relative literary merits. Once Hogg was so irritated by Scott's criticism of a recent work that he started to leave Scott's home in a huff. Scott begged him to stay, asking him not to take his frankness amiss. Hogg replied: " ... it is the greatest folly in the world for me to be sae. But one's beuks are like his bairns, he disna like to hear them spoken ill o', especially when he is conscious that they dinna deserve it." Once Scott implied that Hogg aimed too high literarily. Hogg interjected: "Dear Sir Walter, ye can never suppose that I belang to your school of chivalry! Ye are the king o' that school, but I'm the king of the mountain and fairy school, which is a far higher ane nor yours."

It is hard when reading Hogg on Scott not to think of Mark Twain's famously savage attacks on the Baronet in LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Both Hogg and Twain (Samuel Clemens) were of simple backgrounds and little formal education. Both saw Walter Scott's faults, especially his deference to the aristocracy and a social world based on class distinctions. Mark Twain even blamed the U.S. Civil War on Scott's IVANHOE and on Scott's filling American Southerners with nonsensical ideas about religion, history, lost causes, dashing hotheaded aristocratic men and willowy young ladies. But Hogg, who knew the Laird of Abbotsford close up, also saw the kindest man he ever knew, the truest friend, the great writer never too busy to drop everything to receive a visitor high or low.

There is no special reason to read James Hogg's Memoirs if you are not very curious about Sir Walter Scott. But if you love Scott and demand to know all there is to know of him, then the Ettrick Shepherd is indispensable. -OOO-

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A Moving and Thought-inspiring Read...

Crimes of War : A Novel
Peter Hogg
Manufacturer: BPR Publishers
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ASIN: 0771041594

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“Reile is alive and he’d been there. He’d done all those things. The shootings, the gassings. I was sure of that. There had been no trial for him. He’d escaped the Soviets, he’d escaped the Germans, and we’d welcomed him in with open arms.”

So writes Dennis Connor, the hero of this story, a historian/researcher working for the Special Prosecutions Unit, “an organization dedicated to the swift investigation and prosecution of Nazi war criminals in Canada.” Yet the SPU in this story – and in Canadian reality – had no success in its task, not one successful prosecution to report. Why not?

Connor’s sardonic account of his busy, well-paid colleagues, building files that will go nowhere, is comic yet chilling. Yet despite the web of office intrigues and affairs, and the researches that take him to Moscow during the failed coup against Yeltsin, he is determined to catch the mass murderer Reile.

In alternating chapters we hear from Reile, now a respected senior citizen living quietly in Winnipeg. “Another envelope arrived this morning,” he notes, as Connor closes in. The pursuit revives Reile’s memories of those terrible times. We watch how, day by day, an ordinary young man in a new uniform turns into a war criminal, involved in scenes that make harrowing reading.

This is a deep, powerful novel that will keep readers turning the pages – and then engaged in hot debate.

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A Moving and Thought-inspiring Read..........2001-07-07

As a fan of Canadian literature and authors, I picked up Peter Hogg's "Crimes of War" with a bit of hesitation. Previous to this book, it had been my experience that the 'Nazis' of fiction tend to come off as one-dimensional, with nearly no thought behind them: cardboard villains.

This was not the case in "Crimes of War." Hogg has put a monumental amount of thought and effort into making this book not only enjoyable, but emotionally stirring. The main character, like Hogg himself once did, works in the special division of the Canadian Government that tracks down escaped world war II criminals in Canada.

Time, however, has made this government office obsolete. The Nazis are dying of old age, and, worse, so are the victims who could identify them even if they were arrested. The office is being closed, and Hogg's protagonist, Dennis Connor, has the distinctly unpleasant duty of being the last one there to shut it down, lock the door, and leave the keys behind.

But first, there is one more criminal he knows has escaped into Canada: Reile.

Alternating between the view of the war criminal, the protagonist, and dancing between the present and the past, this book is highly evocative. There is a real humanization of the Nazi who is old aged and ailing, and hiding in Canada. Hogg's novel dares to explore what the mass murderers of world war two were like on an individual level - and without pulling punches: Riele is not an apparent monster.

As the back of the book says, "Does it makes sense to pursue old men in their seventies or eighties for what they did, under orders, in the tumoil of war in Europe fifty years earlier?" "How can the forces of justive ignore mass murderers among us, regardless of how much time has elapsed since they killed their last child?"

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This book identifies and interprets the longstanding ideological and aesthetic dialogue between the literary imaginations of Anglo-Ireland and the Anglo-American South.

It offers a rich comparative examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and American Southern plantation literatures and their respective representations of race and nation, gender and sexuality, region and landscape, and the gothic imagination. Pairing major writers from both traditions, including Maria Edgeworth, William Faulkner, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Anne Porter and Elizabeth Bowen, the book shows how this transatlantic dialogue coalesced around questions of power, supremacy, and gentility: writers in Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Southern literary traditions recognized and spoke to each other through the discourse of aristocracy.

As the book demonstrates, from the early nineteenth-century onwards, Irish and Anglo-Southern writers conducted a sustained exploration into constructions of aristocracy through the figure of the dissipated, deviant gentleman (or lady): the dandy. By augmenting literary analysis with a variety of historical, biographical, archival and visual materials, including nineteenth-century trade cards, original letters, and twentieth-century photographic portraits, the book offers readers a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary illumination of transatlantic modernism.

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Sham Grandeurs, Sham Chivalries: Ascendancy and Aristocracy in Ireland and the American South 1. Oaks, Serpents, and Dandies: Pseudoaristocracy in Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent and John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn 2. The Picture of Charles Bon: Oscar Wilde's Trip through Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha 3. Ferocious Beauty: Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Anne Porter, and the Modernist Female Dandy Epilogue: The Dandy Unmasked

Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg

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Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg
Karl Miller
Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
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Elizabethan Miscellany 1 (Renaissance Studies)

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Elizabethan Miscellany 1 (Renaissance Studies)
James Hogg
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ASIN: 0773405879

Elizabethan Miscellany 2 (Renaissance Studies)

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Elizabethan Miscellany 2 (Renaissance Studies)
James Hogg
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ASIN: 0773404643

Elizabethan Miscellany 3 (Renaissance Studies)

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Elizabethan Miscellany 3 (Renaissance Studies)
James Hogg
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