The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: A Scottish Tale of the Elect
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 50 full-page plates by Henry Fuseli, Francisco Goya and Horatio McCulloch. A young Calvinist is assured by a mysterious friend that, as one of the elect, he cannot sin — and the friend has a great many suggestions. Hogg was a self-taught shepherd from Ettrick with almost no schooling; he published this in 1824, it was dismissed for a century, and the twentieth century found in it the sharpest study of religious mania and the double in the language. Fifty plates after Fuseli, Gainsborough and others turn the tale's Calvinist terror into a visual argument, from the weird sisters of Macbeth to owls mobbed by smaller birds.
Complete and unabridged, with 50 full-page plates by Henry Fuseli, Francisco Goya and Horatio McCulloch. A young Calvinist is assured by a mysterious friend that, as one of the elect, he cannot sin — and the friend has a great many suggestions. Hogg was a self-taught shepherd from Ettrick with al...
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James Hogg (1770–1835) was a Scottish writer and shepherd who worked in the Ettrick Valley and later in Edinburgh. He published poetry and contributed to periodicals, and is known for the 1824 novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
James Hogg (1770–1835) was a Scottish writer and shepherd who worked in the Ettrick Valley and later in Edinburgh. He published poetry and contributed to periodicals, and is known for the 1824 novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
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