The Three Perils of Woman

by James Hogg, Colin Groves (Editor), Antony J. Hasler (Editor), Douglas S. Mack (Editor)

Overview

Commentators once dismissed Perils of Woman as a bad book because it trampled on the flowerbeds of early-nineteenth-century decorum; they now acclaim it a masterpiece for the very same reason, reading subversive craft in the place of oafishness.' Ian Duncan, Studies in Hogg and his World'Both stories [of The Three Perils of Woman] are generically diverse, self-consciously impure. Hogg described them as 'domestic tales', apparently soliciting a female readership whose delicacy he then assaults with speculations about promiscuity and prostitution, and with prayers so chattily informal that reviewers found them blasphemous. Both stories modulate suddenly from comedy to tragedy, though one - but which?- struggles through to what may be a happy ending. [...] What matters about The Three Perils of Woman is not the conclusions it has to offer about the issues it raises, but the fact that these are addressed with such painful urgency. They have become urgent once again, and will continue to be so; and if

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748604777
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	05/01/1995
Series:	The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg , #2
Edition description:	The Stirling/South Carolina research ed
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Antony J. Hasler is Professor in English at the Saint Louis University Douglas Mack is Formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling

Table of Contents

1. Peril First. Love2. Peril Second. Leasing3. Peril Third. Jealousy

What People are Saying About This

Ian Duncan (Yale University)

Commentators once dismissed Perils of Woman as a bad book because it trampled on the flowerbeds of early-nineteenth-century decorum; they now acclaim it a masterpiece for the very same reason, reading subversive craft in the place of oafishness.

— Ian Duncan (Yale University), Studies in Hogg and His World

Ian Duncan

Commentators once dismissed Perils of Woman as a bad book because it trampled on the flowerbeds of early-nineteenth-century decorum; they now acclaim it a masterpiece for the very same reason, reading subversive craft in the place of oafishness.

— Ian Duncan (Yale University), Studies in Hogg and His World

(Yale University) - Ian Duncan

Commentators once dismissed Perils of Woman as a bad book because it trampled on the flowerbeds of early-nineteenth-century decorum; they now acclaim it a masterpiece for the very same reason, reading subversive craft in the place of oafishness.

Editorial Reviews

Both stories [of The Three Perils of Woman] are generically diverse, self-consciously impure. Hogg described them as ‘domestic tales’, apparently soliciting a female readership whose delicacy he then assaults with speculations about promiscuity and prostitution, and with prayers so chattily informal that reviewers found them blasphemous. Both stories modulate suddenly from comedy to tragedy, though one - but which? - struggles through to what may be a happy ending. [...] What matters about The Three Perils of Woman is not the conclusions it has to offer about the issues it raises, but the fact that these are addressed with such painful urgency. They have become urgent once again, and will continue to be so; and if the book provides an especially useful way of thinking about them, it’s because it offers an ‘unflinching’ account of a violent national past while acknowledging the temptation, the impulse, even the need, to flinch.

John Barrell

The overt aim of publishing material that no one else would touch gives The Three Perils of Women, like so much of Hogg's work, a dangerous, unpredictable quality ... Elegant layout of the new scholarly edition.

Fiona Stafford

Commentators once dismissed Perils of Woman as a bad book because it trampled on the flowerbeds of early-nineteenth-century decorum; they now acclaim it a masterpiece for the very same reason, reading subversive craft in the place of oafishness.

Ian Duncan

A masterpiece... The editors provide expert guidance to a text dense with allusions and references... and a bewildering variety of languages, dialects, idiolects, proverbs, annotations, styles and genres.

From the Publisher

A necessary and commendable effort to present... [Hogg's] entire corpus in a welcome research edition.

Scotia - Rhona Brown

A necessary and commendable effort to present... [Hogg's] entire corpus in a welcome research edition.

— Rhona Brown

Scotia: Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies

A necessary and commendable effort to present... [Hogg's] entire corpus in a welcome research edition.

— Rhona Brown

Scotia