Books with title The Private Memoirs And Confessions Of A Justified Sinner

A psychological thriller before its time, James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, published in 1824, takes us back to the world of 18th-century Scotland, into a mind haunted by religious obsession, and driven to commit murder. The events are told from several different viewpoints, so that truth and reality appear to dissolve in this disturbing story of the dark legacy of Calvinist doctrine, and how it led one man to madness. Misunderstood and neglected for more than a century, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is now regarded as a classic of the supernatural, comparable with Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or Dracula.

This new edition of the enduring Scottish classic contains a new introductory essay and biography of the author as well as a full glossary of unfamiliar Scots language words and archaic expressions.----------------------On the surface, a story of a young man, Robert Wringhim, who encounters a doppelganger and is subsequently forced to commit murders. However, underneath lies a disturbing, unclassifiable text using multiple narratives and voices, which gave the book the status of the earliest postmodern text in the history of literature.Perhaps the ultimate unclassifiable novel, Confessions of a Justified Sinner will take the reader for a fascinating journey into the world of angels, devils, possessions and delusion.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James HoggConsidered in turn a Gothic novel, a psychological case study of an unreliable narrator, and an examination of totalitarian thought, the ultimately unclassifiable novel is set in a pseudo-Christian world of angels, devils, and demonic possession. It has been the subject of increasing critical attention in recent years, and has received wide acclaim for its probing quest into the nature of religious fanaticism and Calvinist predestination.It is written in English, with Scots appearing mainly in dialogue.

This new edition of the enduring Scottish classic contains a new introductory essay and biography of the author as well as a full glossary of unfamiliar Scots language words and archaic expressions.----------------------On the surface, a story of a young man, Robert Wringhim, who encounters a doppelganger and is subsequently forced to commit murders. However, underneath lies a disturbing, unclassifiable text using multiple narratives and voices, which gave the book the status of the earliest postmodern text in the history of literature.Perhaps the ultimate unclassifiable novel, Confessions of a Justified Sinner will take the reader for a fascinating journey into the world of angels, devils, possessions and delusion.

This new edition of the enduring Scottish classic contains a new introductory essay and biography of the author as well as a full glossary of unfamiliar Scots language words and archaic expressions.----------------------On the surface, a story of a young man, Robert Wringhim, who encounters a doppelganger and is subsequently forced to commit murders. However, underneath lies a disturbing, unclassifiable text using multiple narratives and voices, which gave the book the status of the earliest postmodern text in the history of literature.Perhaps the ultimate unclassifiable novel, Confessions of a Justified Sinner will take the reader for a fascinating journey into the world of angels, devils, possessions and delusion.

Considered in turn a Gothic novel, a psychological case study of an unreliable narrator, and an examination of totalitarian thought, the ultimately unclassifiable novel is set in a pseudo-Christian world of angels, devils, and demonic possession. It has been the subject of increasing critical attention in recent years, and has received wide acclaim for its probing quest into the nature of religious fanaticism and Calvinist predestination. It is written in English, with Scots appearing mainly in dialogue.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself: With a detail of curious traditionary facts and other evidence by the editor is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published anonymously in 1824.Considered by turns part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought, it can also be thought of as an early example of modern crime fiction in which the story is told, for the most part, from the point of view of its criminal anti-hero. The action of the novel is located in a historically definable Scotland with accurately observed settings, and simultaneously implies a pseudo-Christian world of angels, devils, and demonic possession. The narrative is set against the antinomian societal structure flourishing in the borders of Scotland in Hogg's day.

"The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself: With a detail of curious traditionary facts and other evidence by the editor is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published anonymously in 1824.Considered by turns part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought, it can also be thought of as an early example of modern crime fiction in which the story is told, for the most part, from the point of view of its criminal anti-hero. The action of the novel is located in a historically definable Scotland with accurately observed settings, and simultaneously implies a pseudo-Christian world of angels, devils, and demonic possession. The narrative is set against the antinomian societal structure flourishing in the borders of Scotland in Hogg's day."

"The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself: With a detail of curious traditionary facts and other evidence by the editor is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published anonymously in 1824.Considered by turns part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought, it can also be thought of as an early example of modern crime fiction in which the story is told, for the most part, from the point of view of its criminal anti-hero. The action of the novel is located in a historically definable Scotland with accurately observed settings, and simultaneously implies a pseudo-Christian world of angels, devils, and demonic possession. The narrative is set against the antinomian societal structure flourishing in the borders of Scotland in Hogg's day."

On the surface, this novel is a simple tale of a young man who encounters a shape-shifting devil, an early manifestation of a doppelganger, and the various misadventures that follow. This novel was perhaps the first post modern novel; it employs clustered narratives, self-reflexive point-of-view, unreliable narrators, and an unsympathetic-protagonist. This is indeed a landmark novel.