James Hogg's Confessions of a justified sinner and the romantic roots of crime fiction

Matthew McGuire

doi:10.3172/CLU.30.1.8

James Hogg's Confessions of a justified sinner and the romantic roots of crime fiction

Matthew McGuire

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Abstract

The author attempts to situate James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) as a key text in the proto-history of crime fiction. Hogg's novel is considered alongside the early crime fiction of William Godwin and Charles Brockden Brown, and the cultural milieu of the 1820s, specifically Blackwood's "tales of terror" and the work of Thomas De Quincey. Reading Hogg's novel in this way reasserts the somewhat overlooked origins of crime fiction within the broader contexts of romanticism.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	8-17
Number of pages	10
Journal	Clues
Volume	30
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3172/CLU.30.1.8
Publication status	Published - 2012

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crime fiction
writing
literary studies
Scottish literature

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