With an Introduction & Notes by David Blair University of Kent at Canterbury James Hogg's most ambitious prose work The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner is now widely acclaimed as his masterpiece In the early years of the 18th century Scotland is torn by religious & political strife Hogg's sinner justified by his Calvinist conviction that his own salvation is pre-ordained is suspected of involvement in a series of bizarre & hideous crimes A century later his memoirs reveal the extraordinary macabre truth The tale is chilling for its astute psychological accuracy as it illustrates with power & economy the dire effect of self-righteous bigotry on a fanatical character In the first half of his new introduction David Blair provides a detailed explanation of the historical & religious contexts of Hogg's novel In the second half he probes the book's brilliant complex engagement with issues of identity history & narrative itself ...

James Hogg's The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a Scottish classic a quintessentially Gothic tale of psychological horror & a relentless attack on Calvinist dogma The Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction & notes by Karl Miller Robert Wringham's family is composed of a dissolute father & brother a pious mother & a rival father in the person of a fanatical Calvinist minister He comes to believe that he is one of the elect predestined to be saved while others are damned Sure of his freedom from the dictates of morality he embarks on a series of crimes in the company of a new friend Gil-Martin a man of many likenesses who can be mistaken for Robert & who explains that they are as one in the holy work of purifying the world But who is Gil-Martin? & what does he truly desire? The Gothic double or doppelganger is nowhere more powerfully imagined than in Confessions of a Justified Sinner once called 'the greatest novel of Scotland' This new edition has an introduction by Karl Miller which discusses the presence of the novel in the life & times of James Hogg It also contains two of Hogg's most interesting stories ' Marion's Jock' & ' John Gray o' Middleholm' James Hogg (1770-1835) born in Ettrick in the Scottish Borders A shepherd for many years Hogg was writing poems by the 1790s aiding Walter Scott with material for his collection of ballads The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border In 1810 he moved to Edinburgh where he published several volumes of verse & worked on the Spy & Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Confessions of a Justified Sinner was published anonymously in 1824 & is now generally seen as his masterpiece If you enjoyed Confessions of a Justified Sinner you might like Matthew Lewis's The Monk also available in Penguin Classics'A Scottish classic a world classic' Ian Rankin'A sinister funny moving tale of demonic possession murder & religious fanaticism' Sunday Telegraph ...

' We have heard much of the rage of fanaticism in former days but nothing to this' A wretched young man 'an outcast in the world' tells the story of his upbringing by a heretical Calvinist minister who leads him to believe that he is one of the elect predestined for salvation & thus above the moral law Falling under the spell of a mysterious stranger who bears an uncanny likeness to himself he embarks on a career as a serial murderer Robert Wringhim's Memoirs are presented by an editor whose attempts to explain the story only succeed in intensifying its more baffling & bizarre aspects Is Wringhim the victim of a psychotic delusion or has he been tempted by the devil to wage war against God's enemies? Hogg's sardonic & terrifying novel too perverse for nineteenth-century taste is now recognized as one of the masterpieces of Romantic fiction The first edition text of 1824 has been freshly considered for this new edition A critical introduction explores the remarkable career of the novel's author & its historical theological & cultural contexts ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

Between 1994-2014 Israel's security service was transformed becoming one of the most extreme examples of privatised security in the world This book is an investigation into this period & the conditions that created Occupation Inc' the institution of a private military-security-industrial complex State sponsored violence is increasing as a result of this securitisation but why is it necessary & what are its implications? In this book Shir Hever considers the impact of the ongoing Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation the influence of US military aid & the rise of neoliberalism in Israel to make sense of this dramatic change in security policy Through the lens of political economy this book shows how the Israeli security elites turn violence into a commodity in order to preserve their status & wealth providing a fresh new perspective on the Israeli occupation ...

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How was it possible for opponents of slavery to be so vocal in opposing the practice when they were so accepting of the economic exploitation of workers in western factories
- many of which were owned by prominent abolitionists? David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823 uses the critical thinking skill of analysis to break down the various arguments that were used to condemn one set of controversial practices & examine those that were used to defend another His study allows us to see clear differences in reasoning & to test the assumptions made by each argument in turn The result is an eye-opening explanation that makes it clear exactly how contemporaries resolved this apparent dichotomy
- one that allows us to judge whether the opponents of slavery were clear-eyed idealists or simply deployers of arguments that pandered to their own base economic interests

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