BIOGRAPHIES

Groves, David. “James Hogg, London, and the Royal Lady's Magazine.” Library 10, no. 4 (December 1988): 339-46.

Relates anecdotes from Hogg's visit to London in 1832.

Parr, Norah. James Hogg at Home: Being the Domestic Life and Letters of the Ettrick Shepherd. Dollar, Scotland: Douglas S. Mack, 1980, 142 p.

Account of Hogg's married life (1820-1835) written by his great-granddaughter and containing reprints of numerous letters.

CRITICISM

Campbell, Ian. “James Hogg and the Bible.” In The Bible in Scottish Life and Literature, edited by David F. Wright, pp. 94-109. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 1988.

Considers Hogg's understanding of the Bible and his use of this knowledge for artistic and satirical ends in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

Crawford, Thomas. “James Hogg: The Play of Region and Nation.” In The History of Scottish Literature, Volume 3: Nineteenth Century, edited by Douglas Gifford, pp. 89-106. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988.

Presents an overview of Hogg's poetry and prose fiction, calling Hogg “the most Romantic Scottish author of the Romantic Age.”

Groves, David. “Allusions to Dr. Faustus in James Hogg's A Justified Sinner.” Studies in Scottish Literature 18 (1983): 157-65.

Traces affinities between The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and Christopher Marlowe's drama The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.

———. “Stepping Back to an Early Age: James Hogg's Three Perils of Woman and the Ion of Euripides.” Studies in Scottish Literature 21 (1986): 176-96.

Contends that The Three Perils of Woman “rewrites” the ancient tragedy Ion, setting it in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland.

———. “John Clare and James Hogg: Two Peasant Poets in the Athenaeum.” Bulletin of Research in the Humanities 87, nos. 2-3 (1986-87): 225-29.

Mentions the printing of Hogg's “A Scottish Ballad” and other poems in the periodical Athenaeum.

———. “James Hogg and the Scots Magazine.” Library 9, no. 2 (June 1987): 164-69.

Attributes the poem “Lament for the Old Scots Magazine” to Hogg.

———. “James Hogg and ‘Mr. W. W.’: A New Parody of Wordsworth.” Studies in Scottish Literature 23 (1988): 186-98.

Reprints and briefly explicates a Hogg parody of William Wordsworth's Excursion published anonymously in 1824 and entitled “Examination of the School of Southside.”

———. “James Hogg's Confessions: New Information.” Review of English Studies 40, no. 158 (May 1989): 240-42.

Forwards evidence suggesting that the end of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner may be closely based on actual events.

———. “James Hogg's ‘Historical Ballads’.” Library 12, no. 2 (June 1990): 137-40.

Examines two poems by Hogg on subjects from Scottish history.

Jack, Alison M. “Hogg's Readings of the Bible” and “Reading the Confessions Deconstructively.” In Texts Reading Texts, Sacred and Secular, pp. 38-74 and 126-66. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Offers deconstructive analyses of “The Chaldee Manuscript,” The Three Perils of Man, and The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

Mack, Douglas S. “James Hogg's Second Thoughts on The Three Perils of Man.” Studies in Scottish Literature 21 (1986): 167-75.

Probes Hogg's numerous revisions to The Three Perils of Man between 1822 and the work's posthumous republication in Hogg's Tales and Sketches of 1837.

———. “Culloden and After: Scottish Jacobite Novels.” Eighteenth-Century Life 20, no. 3 (November 1996): 92-106.

Describes Hogg's critical representation of the eighteenth-century Jacobite rebellion in Scotland in his The Three Perils of Woman.

———. “Hogg as Poet: A Successor to Burns?” In Love and Liberty, Robert Burns: A Bicentenary Celebration, edited by Kenneth Simpson, pp. 119-27. East Linton, East Lothian: Tuckwell Press, 1997.

Considers Hogg's attempts to construct himself as the literary successor to the Scottish poet Robert Burns in his Memoir of the Author's Life and other writings.

———. “Frankenstein, The Three Perils of Woman, and Wuthering Heights: Romantic and Victorian Perspectives on the Fiction of James Hogg.” In Victorian Keats and Romantic Carlyle: The Fusions and Confusions of Literary Periods, edited by C. C. Barfoot, pp. 283-98. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999.

Explores similarities between The Three Perils of Woman and two representative Romantic and Victorian novels—Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, respectively.

Parsons, Coleman O. “The Parodic Background of ‘The Chaldee Manuscript’.” Studies in Scottish Literature 24 (1989): 221-25.

Compares the satirical “Chaldee Manuscript” with other Biblical parodies of the period.

Redekop, Magdalene. “Beyond Closure: Buried Alive with Hogg's Justified Sinner.” ELH 52, no. 1 (spring 1985): 159-84.

Evaluates The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner as an incipient post-modernist novel that defies closure and invites misreading.

Smith, Iain Crichton. “A Work of Genius: James Hogg's Justified Sinner.” Studies in Scottish Literature 28 (1993): 1-11.

Concentrates on the “Dostoevskian” theme and humor of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

Additional coverage of Hogg's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 93, 116, and 159.