...John Plotz This article recognizes the accomplishment of the editors of the Stirling/South Carolina Edition of James Hogg and reflects on the long literary eclipse that followed Hogg's death in 1835. Hogg was both the inventor and prime nineteenth-century practitioner of what could be called...

...Ian Duncan This essay analyzes the challenge issued by James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) to the liberal regime of early nineteenth-century British fiction. Hogg's novel narrates the formation and dissolution of the fanatic whose subject position...

... Greiff. Cambridge: MIT P, 1998 . Heller , Agnes . A Theory of Modernity . Oxford: Blackwell, 1999 . Hogg , James . The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner . Ed. John Carey. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999 . Kant , Immanuel . Critique of Pure Reason . Trans...

... themselves in terms of him—as his imitator, interlocutor, respondent, or satirist. A few of the figures in this field have been the objects of recent revivalist projects in their own right (e.g., James Hogg, John Galt), while others tend to be known only to specialists (e.g., Elizabeth Hamilton, Susan...

... and read chapter 1, “Pertinent Fiction: Short Stories into Novels.” I have long been a fan of the great late-century short story writers, and Plotz's discussion entranced me. “Since Dickens” (1812–70) here starts, rather oddly, with James Hogg (1770–1835) and John Galt (1779–1839). But then oddness is what...

... for representation in which individuals, rather than the state in its guise as an impersonal force of tradition, can take those decisions, the difficult nature of the decision itself is exposed. This is particularly clear in novels that brush up against Calvinism, such as James Hogg’s Private Memoirs...

... and the Machine in the Eighteenth Century 337 ian duncan Fanaticism and Civil Society: Hogg’s Justified Sinner 343 jane elliott The Return of the Referent...

... and accountability” (21). The following four chapters and epilogue—focusing respectively on Jane Austen's Mansfield Park , James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner , Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities , William Godwin's Caleb Williams , and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein —trace...

... defined not by singleness but by incompletion, rupture, uncertainty” (21). Plotz traces this alternative short-fiction tradition from the work of James Hogg in the first third of the century, with his commitment to “staging the intersection of profoundly disjunctive belief systems within [the fictional...

... of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës . University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1995 . Hogg , James . The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner . Ed. Robert M. Adams New York: Norton, 1970 . Hogle , Jerrold E. “‘Frankenstein’ as Neo-Gothic: From the Ghost...

... globalization, I: 207, 290; II: 546; III: 78, historical novel, I: 332; II: 490; III: 11 83 historicism, I: 167, 190, 239; II: 417; III: Godwin, William, III: 140 176, 184, 189 An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Hogg, James...

... n , for example, and in James Hogg’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1823), readers are repeatedly jolted between giving credence to a story and distancing themselves critically from it. Rather than being an obstacle to a novel’s seeming “real,” this awareness of fictiveness within...

... as Hogg, Inchbald, Radcliffe, and a few others, but by and large, the Romantic- era novel, rather than constituting the first great age of the popular novel in English, which it was, came to be seen as "problematic": post-Richardson and pre-Dickens, but otherwise a taxonomic challenge...