{"product_id":"marriage-in-james-hogg-s-work-plotting-for-gender-class-and-ethnic-equality-9789004519435","title":"Marriage in James Hogg’s Work: Plotting for Gender, Class, and Ethnic Equality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: James Hogg, a Counter-culture Voice   1\tWho was James Hogg?   2\tExploding the Marriage Plot and the Family Metaphor for the Nation   3\tHogg, Literary Dialogism, and Early Nineteenth-century Politeness   4\tHogg's Intersectional Dialogue with Stereotypes of Gender, Class, and Ethnicity   5\tSummary of the Chapters  2 Exploding the Marriage Plot   1\tThe Three Perils Novels and the Ideology of the Marriage Plot   2\tThe Witches' Marriage to the Devil: A 'True Emblem of all Worldly Grandeur'   3\tThe Chronotope of the Asylum: A Subversive Literary Space   4\tViolating a Maternal Body  3 Scottish Masculinities and the British Empire   1\tMore Than Just Highlanders   2\tBritish Masculinities   3\tDemystifying the Highland Warrior   4\tWat o' the Cleuch: A Voracious Scottish Borderer Thief  4 Women's Sexuality and the Scottish Kirk   1\tThe Authority of the Scottish Kirk   2\tChild Murder and 'The Stool of Repentance'   3\tWhen Discourses Clash: Motherhood and Child Murder   4\tMador of the Moor and the Fairies' Abduction of Unchristened Children   5\t'Maria's Tale' and the Evils of Female Servants' Seduction   6\tBell Calvert and the Tragic World of 'Women of Ill Fame'  5 Unconventional Heroines   1\tIntroduction: When Primary and Secondary Heroines Merge   2\t'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\t'Maid of Dunedin, I'm the King o' the Mountain and Fairy School'  6 James Hogg and the North American Literary Market   1\tNetworking with the United States   2\tThe Ettrick Shepherd in the American Periodical Press   3\t'Bruce and the Spider': The Voice of Abolitionism and Independence   4\t'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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210847478103,"sku":"9789004519435","price":95.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/marriage-in-james-hogg-s-work-plotting-for-gender-class-and-ethnic-equality-9789004519435","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}