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PhD thesis.  \n[https://theses.gla.ac.uk/2097/](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/2097/)  \nCopyright and moral rights for this work are retained by the author  \nA copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge  \nThis work cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the author  \nThe content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the author  \nWhen referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given  \nEnlighten: Theses  \n[https://theses.gla.ac.uk/](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/)  \n[research-enlighten@glasgow.ac.uk](research-enlighten@glasgow.ac.uk)  \nThe Ettrick Shepherd and the Modern Pythagorean: Science and Imagination in  \nRomantic Scotland  \nMegan Joann Coyer  \nSubmitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of  \nPhilosophy  \nDepartment of Scottish Literature  \nFaculty of Arts  \nUniversity of Glasgow  \nAugust 2010  \nTable of Contents  \nAbstract ....................................................................................................................... i  \nAcknowledgments .................................................................................................... iii  \nIntroduction ................................................................................................................ 1  \nSection 1: Journeys of the Embodied Soul ........................................................... 11  \nChapter 1: Fairy Flights and Ugly Bards ............................................................ 14  \nChapter 2: The Dreaming Shepherd and The Pilgrims of the Sun ...................38  \nSection 2: The Significant Flesh............................................................................. 74  \nChapter 3: Phenomenology and Phrenology: ‘A Modern Pythagorean’ in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine...................................................................... 76  \nChapter 4: Dreaming, Drunkenness, and Damnation: The Influence of Hogg’s Confessions ........................................................................................................ 122  \nSection 3: Narratives of Science and Superstition ............................................. 153  \nChapter 5: Disembodied Souls and Exemplary Narratives............................. 156  \nChapter 6: A Psychological Curiosity.............................................................. 185  \nEpilogue: Imagination and Science......................................................................205  \nGeneral Bibliography.............................................................................................214  \nManuscript Bibliography.......................................................................................237  \nChronological Bibliography of Periodicals and Annuals ............. See Inserted CD  \nAbstract  \nThis thesis focuses on predisciplinary dialogue in the Romantic periodical press, and in particular, on the influence of medical thinking and the science of the mind on the writing of James Hogg (1770-1835) .  \nThe applicability of twentieth-century psychology to Hogg’s masterpiece, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824), is largely responsible for Hogg’s entrance into the modern world canon, and the tension between rational scientific and traditional supernatural explanations in Hogg’s corpus is now a critical commonplace. However, critics have been hesitant to recognise Hogg’s voice in the proto-psychological polemics of his era. The ongoing publication of the Stirling/South Carolina Research edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg has catalysed revisionist scholarship in Hogg studies and is leading to","cbCaierF5dUF4lD7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaierF5dUF4lD7","pdf",1731618,294,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Section 1: Journeys of the Embodied Soul\n### Chapter 1: Fairy Flights and Ugly Bards\n### Chapter 2: The Dreaming Shepherd and The Pilgrims of the Sun\n## Section 2: The Significant Flesh\n### Chapter 3: Phenomenology and Phrenology\n### Chapter 4: Dreaming, Drunkenness, and Damnation\n## Section 3: Narratives of Science and Superstition\n### Chapter 5: Disembodied Souls and Exemplary Narratives\n### Chapter 6: A Psychological Curiosity\n# Epilogue: Imagination and Science","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the thesis?\",\"answer\":\"The thesis examines how medical thinking and the science of the mind, expressed in Romantic periodical press, influenced James Hogg’s writing.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the thesis connect Hogg to modern psychology?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that twentieth-century psychology offers an interpretive frame for Hogg’s work, especially through the tension between rational scientific and supernatural explanations.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the thesis emphasize Robert Macnish?\",\"answer\":\"It studies Hogg’s connections to Robert Macnish, a Glasgow surgeon and writer who contributed prose fiction under the pseudonym “A Modern Pythagorean” and published medical texts engaging mind–body and altered states.\"}]","The Ettrick Shepherd and the Modern Pythagorean - Science and Imagination in Romantic Scotland | PDF",741]