The Spy : A Periodical Paper of Literary Amusement and Instruction Hardback
by James Hogg
Edited by Gillian Hughes
Part of the The Collected Works of James Hogg series
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Hogg's extremely rare periodical of 1810-11 shows him reacting to the writers, personalities, and locales of Scotland's capital city after his move to Edinburgh from Ettrick and his career-change from shepherd and farmer to professional author.
His characteristically astute and idiosyncratic vision reveals a rather different city from that of Walter Scott and Francis Jeffrey, and his band of contributors form another audience for his work than the middle-class Tories associated with the later Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
The Spy includes early versions of some of Hogg's best-known poetry and prose besides a wealth of fascinating lesser-known material.
This is the first edition of The Spy since the original edition of 1810-11 was published, and offers a carefully corrected text, full annotation, notes on Hogg's contributors to his paper, and a history of its making. It represents an advance in our knowledge both of Hogg's early writing career and of the city he encountered early in the nineteenth century.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:712 pages, 1 map
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:04/05/2000
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- ISBN:9780748614172
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:712 pages, 1 map
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:04/05/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780748614172