The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

James Hogg. Edited by Peter Garside and Ian Campbell

"We are left to our own imaginations and our own devices to piece together what exactly happened in and around the lands of Delcastle in the early 1700s. This, in short, is the essence of Hogg's genius. . . . [Hogg] will take his place beside James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Dostoevsky and D. H. Lawrence. If you have read him, read him again in this new, unedited, and thoroughly annotated version. If you've never read him, you should." — Kay Gardner, AB Bookman's Weekly

"The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner retains its place as an astonishing ‘classic’ of nineteenth-century fiction." — Rhona Brown, Scotia

"Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions has at last appeared in a fully-annotated version, with a wonderfully illuminating critical introduction by Peter Garside. There are two fascinating essays on the reception of the novel and on its roots in the history and geography of Scotland. This is a superb addition to a superb series." — Professor John Barrell, University of York

"Hogg [is] a writer who assimilated, subverted, and fictionalised the rigid class structures of his day, and whose innovative and varied contributions make him a key Romantic auto/biographer, journalist, and novelist. Peter Garside’s edition of Confessions of a Justified Sinner throws a great deal of new light on a familiar text. His introduction . . . brings together the insights of previous editions and the finest scholarship on Hogg of the past twenty years . . . Garsides endnotes add immensely to our knowledge of Hogg’s most famous book, and cap a scholarly edition that is impressive from start to finish." — Robert Morrison, Acadia University

About the Author

Ian Campbell is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and editor of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's The Speak of the Mearns and Spartacus.

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