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Collected Editions
The Stirling /South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995 -), now underway but not yet complete, is a modern scholarly edition. Previous editions which are useful but bowdlerised are Tales and Sketches by the Ettrick Shepherd, 6 vols (Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1836-37), The Poetical Works of the Ettrick Shepherd, 5 vols (Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1838-40), and The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd, ed. by Thomas Thomson, 2 vols (Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1865).
Bibliography
Edith C. Batho’s Bibliography in The Ettrick Shepherd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927), is still useful, together with her supplementary ‘Notes on the Bibliography of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd’, in The Library, 16 (1935-36), 309-26. Two more modern and reader-friendly bibliographies are Douglas S. Mack, Hogg’s Prose: An Annotated Listing (Stirling: The James Hogg Society, 1985), and Gillian Hughes, Hogg’s Verse and Drama: A Chronological Listing (Stirling: The James Hogg Society, 1990). Subsequent information about recently discovered Hogg items may be gleaned from various articles in The Bibliotheck and Studies in Hogg and his World.
Biography and Letters
Major recent studies of Hogg's life and work are Karl Miller's Electric Shepherd (London: Faber, 2003) and Gillian Hughes’ James Hogg: A Life (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007). Gillian Hughes has also edited Hogg's Collected Letters (3 volumes, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004, 2006, 2008). A complete index is included in volume 3, but an interim index is also available electronically. Hogg's life up to 1825 is covered by Alan Lang Strout's The Life and Letters of James Hogg, The Ettrick Shepherd Volume 1 (1770-1825), Texas Technological College Research Publications, 15 (Lubbock, Texas: Texas Technological College, 1946). Much valuable information may be obtained from Mrs M. G. Garden's memoir of her father, Memorials of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd (London: Alexander Gardner, 1885), and from Mrs Norah Parr's account of Hogg's domestic life in James Hogg at Home (Dollar: Douglas S. Mack, 1980). Also useful are Sir George Douglas, James Hogg, Famous Scots Series (Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1899), and Henry Thew Stephenson's The Ettrick Shepherd: A Biography, Indiana University Studies, 54 (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, 1922).
General Criticism
Edith C. Batho, The Ettrick Shepherd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927)
Louis Simpson, James Hogg: A Critical Study (Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1962)
Douglas Gifford, James Hogg (Edinburgh: The Ramsay Head Press, 1976)
Nelson C. Smith, James Hogg, Twayne's English Authors Series (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1980)
David Groves, James Hogg: The Growth of a Writer (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1988)
Thomas Crawford, 'James Hogg: The Play of Region and Nation', in The History of Scottish Literature: Volume 3 Nineteenth Century, ed. by Douglas Gifford (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 89–105
Silvia Mergenthal, James Hogg: Selbstbild und Bild, Publications of the Scottish Studies Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz in Germersheim, 9 (Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang, 1990)
Penny Fielding, Writing and Orality: Nationality, Culture, and Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)
Douglas S. Mack, 'Hogg in 2000 and Beyond', Romanticism on the Net, 19 (August 2000) [http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2000/v/n19/005934ar.html]