Abstract
Discusses periodical short stories by the Scottish writer James Hogg (1770-1835), and his periodical The Spy, arguing that these textually perform oral story-telling features within the print medium, problematize Walter Benjamin’s distinction between traditional oral storytelling and the printed short story as vanguard of modernity, and show the periodical short story as a form embodies modernity while performing tradition.
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Hotchkiss, Duncan
(2020)
"Performing Authenticity in the 19th-Century Short Story: Walter Benjamin, James Hogg, and The Spy,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 46:
Iss.
1, 100–116.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol46/iss1/12