Ettrick Shepherd Research Articles

Bruce Gilkison, Walking with James Hogg: The Ettrick Shepherd's Journeys through Scotland

Bruce Gilkison, <i>Walking with James Hogg: The Ettrick Shepherd's Journeys through Scotland</i>

Avatars in Edinburgh: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and the Second Life of Hogg’s Ettrick Shepherd

In this essay, I deploy the contemporary technical term avatar to interpret the functions of “the Ettrick Shepherd,” a character associated with James Hogg that originated in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and appears subsequently in Hogg’s novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824). The notorious difficulty of Sinner, I argue, is due in part to the movement of the Shepherd, as an avatar, from one textual realm to another in a way that reveals the limits of meaning making in synthetic landscapes. I show how reading the Shepherd as an avatar furthers our understanding of the novel’s engagement with Blackwood’s, as well as the experience of readers in Romantic-era Edinburgh, whose literary culture thrived on dynamic representations of and relationships between people in print.

Sheep, Fairies, and Hogg: Biopolitics of the Ettrick Shepherd

James Hogg fashions a particular line of resistance using tales of fairies and witches and stories about the life of shepherds far from the cultural center of Edinburgh. The fairy and witch stories provide a particular way of seeing. In pairing these "superstitions" with the life of shepherds, this essay links a variety of Hogg's rural tales as biopolitical resistance against modes of coopting human and animal bodies into productivity for the rising nation state. Wonder produced in these tales signals a way of dwelling that is incompatible with national "progress." The stories refuse the fashioning of an isomorphic national space and instead place locales across Scotland as heterotopic communities not to be subsumed by under Britannia.

Plagiarising the Ettrick Shepherd? A Note on the Manuscript of Charlotte Brontë's Tales of the Islanders and Winifred Gérin's Emily Brontë

Plagiarising the Ettrick Shepherd? A Note on the Manuscript of Charlotte Brontë's Tales of the Islanders and Winifred Gérin's Emily Brontë

Alice and the Reviewers

Alice and the Reviewers

James Hogg and The Ettrick Shepherd

IN 1947 JAMES HOGG'S NOVEL The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner was republished with an enthusiastic introduction by André Gide. Gide wrote that he had read the novel ‘with a stupefaction and admiration that increased at every page’, but nevertheless he was unable to find a cultured Englishman, American or Frenchman who had read the book or knew anything about its author. Since 1947 Hogg's novel has won a high reputation, a reputation which has been further enhanced by its recent publication in the Oxford English Novels series.

The Ettrick Shepherd: Two unnoted articles

The Ettrick Shepherd: Two unnoted articles

James Hogg's “Chaldee Manuscript”

Among the Blackwood Papers left by the late George William Black-wood to the National Library of Scotland are some eighty pages entitled “Original manuscript of the Chaldee MS. by James Hogg, The Ettrick Shepherd, with his Letters relating to it; also Mr. Blackwood's notes thereon, and other Letters....” The National Library of Scotland has most generously sent me microfilms of this material.1 A book of engravings published by Blackwood. Patrick Fraser Tytler discusses the work in Blackwood's Magazine (Nov., 1817), ii, 205.

Alan Lang Strout. The Life and Letters of James Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd. Volume 1 (1770-1825)

Journal Article Alan Lang Strout. The Life and Letters of James Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd. Volume 1 (1770-1825) Get access The Life and Letters of James Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd. Volume 1 (1770-1825). By Alan Lang Strout. Pp. iv+272. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech. Press. 1946. [No price given.] W. D. Taylor W. D. Taylor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, Volume os-XXV, Issue 98, 1 April 1949, Pages 174–175, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/os-XXV.98.174 Published: 01 April 1949

The Ettrick Shepherd in Lewis

The Ettrick Shepherd in Lewis

The Ettrick Shepherd: A Biography.

The Ettrick Shepherd: A Biography.

Tennyson and the Ettrick Shepherd

Tennyson and the Ettrick Shepherd

The ettrick shepherd

Journal Article The ettrick shepherd Get access Charles Rogers Charles Rogers 1Grampian Lodge, Forest Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s5-X, Issue 255, 16 November 1878, Page 386, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s5-X.255.386c Published: 16 November 1878

Poem by the Ettrick Shepherd

Poem by the Ettrick Shepherd

Lines on the Death of the Ettrick Shepherd

Lines on the Death of the Ettrick Shepherd