SOURCE: Schoenfield, Mark L. “Butchering James Hogg: Romantic Identity in the Magazine Market.” In At the Limits of Romanticism: Essays in Cultural, Feminist, and Materialist Criticism, edited by Mary A. Favret and Nicola J. Watson, pp. 207-24. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.

In the following essay, Schoenfield uses the example of Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and his relationship to Blackwood's Magazine to probe the social component of authorial identity in the early nineteenth century.

[Hogg:] Were you the author of the article alluded to in my paper which places you at the head and me at the tail … of all the poets in Britain?

[Scott:] What right had you sir to suppose that I was the author of it?

[Hogg:] Nay what right had you to suppose that you were the author of it? The truth is that when I wrote the remarks...