About Myself
Liam McIlvanney: James Hogg, 18 November 2004
The Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg
by Karl Miller.
Faber, 401 pp., £25, August 2003,0 571 21816 4 Show More
by Karl Miller.
Faber, 401 pp., £25, August 2003,
Altrive Tales
by James Hogg, edited by Gillian Hughes.
Edinburgh, 293 pp., £40, July 2003,0 7486 1893 7 Show More
by James Hogg, edited by Gillian Hughes.
Edinburgh, 293 pp., £40, July 2003,
“... J.G. Lockhart, John Wilson, Walter Scott, William Maginn, Allan Cunningham, William Blackwood, Francis Jeffrey, Henry Cockburn – are evoked, not as ciphers for their works but as bullish personalities. What Miller values most in Hogg’s fiction – its ‘intentness on a real, visible, palpable, smellable Scotland’ – is triumphantly exhibited in ... ”