Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs

by James Hogg, Kirsteen McCue (Editor)

Overview

This volume provides access to the relevant material in the various musical collections to which Hogg refers in his 1831 head notes, thus allowing twenty-first century readers to see in facsimile what Hogg himself saw. This procedure provides a broader context - in literary and musical terms - in which to enhance our understanding of the reception of Hogg's songs during his lifetime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748639359
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	01/25/2015
Series:	The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg
Pages:	832
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. He is best known for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

Kirsteen McCue is a graduate of the University of Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford. She is currently Head of Scottish Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow. She has published widely on Romantic song culture and is now working on an edition of Burns’s songs for George Thomson for the new Oxford edition of The Works of Robert Burns.