Marriage in James Hogg's Work

Plotting for Gender, Class, and Ethnic Equality
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51943-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature

Throughout his career, self-taught Scottish writer James Hogg (1770-1835) violated literary proprieties which discouraged the frank treatment of prostitution, infanticide, and the violence of war. Contemporary reviewers received Hogg’s bluntness rather fiercely because, in so doing, he questioned the ideologies of chastity, marriage and military masculinities that informed emerging discourses of the British Empire. This book reveals the strategic use that Hogg made of the marriage plot to challenge the civilising ideal of the motherly heroine as well as martial and sentimental masculinities which supported the discourse of a strong but tamed national vigour, thereby highlighting Hogg’s critical use of gender stereotypes in relation to norms of class and ethnicity when deconstructing this plot convention.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leonardi, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: James Hogg, a Counter-culture Voice

1 Who was James Hogg?

2 Exploding the Marriage Plot and the Family Metaphor for the Nation

3 Hogg, Literary Dialogism, and Early Nineteenth-century Politeness

4 Hogg's Intersectional Dialogue with Stereotypes of Gender, Class, and Ethnicity

5 Summary of the Chapters

2 Exploding the Marriage Plot

1 The Three Perils Novels and the Ideology of the Marriage Plot

2 The Witches' Marriage to the Devil: A 'True Emblem of all Worldly Grandeur'

3 The Chronotope of the Asylum: A Subversive Literary Space

4 Violating a Maternal Body

3 Scottish Masculinities and the British Empire

1 More Than Just Highlanders

2 British Masculinities

3 Demystifying the Highland Warrior

4 Wat o' the Cleuch: A Voracious Scottish Borderer Thief

4 Women's Sexuality and the Scottish Kirk

1 The Authority of the Scottish Kirk

2 Child Murder and 'The Stool of Repentance'

3 When Discourses Clash: Motherhood and Child Murder

4 Mador of the Moor and the Fairies' Abduction of Unchristened Children

5 'Maria's Tale' and the Evils of Female Servants' Seduction

6 Bell Calvert and the Tragic World of 'Women of Ill Fame'

5 Unconventional Heroines

1 Introduction: When Primary and Secondary Heroines Merge

2 'There is Neither Sin Nor Shame in Being Unwedded, but There May Be Baith in Joining Yourself to an Unbeliever': Choosing Spinsterhood When There are no Heroes

3 'Maid of Dunedin, I'm the King o' the Mountain and Fairy School'

6 James Hogg and the North American Literary Market

1 Networking with the United States

2 The Ettrick Shepherd in the American Periodical Press

3 'Bruce and the Spider': The Voice of Abolitionism and Independence

4 'Tales of Fathers and Daughters': Crossing Class Boundaries in the Marriage Plot

7 Conclusion: Reflecting on Hogg's Position in the Literary Canon

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Leonardi earned her AHRC-funded PhD in English Studies from Stirling University (2013) with a thesis awarded ‘The Professor G. Ross Roy Medal’. She edited Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond (2018)