On essays : Montaigne to the present /

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Edition:	First published in paperback
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Description:	xvi, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	English essays -- History and criticism. American essays -- History and criticism. American essays English essays Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12595199

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Other authors / contributors:	Karshan, Thomas, editor. Murphy, Kathryn, editor.
ISBN:	9780192848611 019870786X 9780198707868 9780191779008 9780191017537 0192848615
Notes:	First published 2020 Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Montaigne called it a ramble; Chesterton the joke of literature; and Hume an ambassador between the worlds of learning and of conversation. But what is an essay, and how did it emerge as a literary form? What are the continuities and contradictions across its history, from Montaigne's 1580 Essais through the familiar intimacies of the Romantic essay, and up to more recent essayists such as Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, and Claudia Rankine?0Sometimes called the fourth genre, the essay has been over-shadowed in literary history by fiction, poetry, and drama, and has proved notoriously resistant to definition. On Essays reveals in the essay a pattern of paradox: at once a pedagogical tool and a refusal of the methodical languages of universities and professions; politically engaged but retired and independent; erudite and anti-pedantic; occasional and enduring; intimate and oratorical; allusive and idiosyncratic.0Perhaps because it is a form of writing against which literary scholarship has defined itself, there has been surprisingly little work on the tradition of the essay. Neither a comprehensive history nor a student companion, On Essays is a series of seventeen elegantly written essays on authors and aspects in the history of the genre - essays which, taken together, form the most substantial book yet published on the essay in Britain and America.

Table of Contents:

On the difficulty of introducing a work of this kind / Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy
What is an essay? Thirteen answers from Virginia Woolf / Thomas Karshan
The Montaignian essay and authored miscellanies from antiquity to the nineteenth century / Warren Boutcher
Of sticks and stones : the essay, experience, and experiment / Kathryn Murphy
Time and the essay : The spectator and diurnal form / Markman Ellis
The sociable philosopher : David Hume and the philosophical essay / Fred Parker
Tristram Shandy, essayist / Scott Black
On coffee-houses, smoking, and the English essay tradition / Denise Gigante
The romantic essay and the city / Gregory Dart
Charls Lamb, Elia, and essays in familiarity / Felicity James
Carlyle, Emerson, and the voiced essay / Tom F. Wright
Retiring or engaging : politics in the English essay / Ophelia Field
Things said by the way : Walter Pater and the essay / Stefano Evangelista
"Strips of essayism" : Eliot, Hardy, and the Victorian periodical essay / Bharat Tandon
National distortions : essayism in the British novel after Borges / Michael Wood
Creative nonfiction and the lyric essay : the American essay in the twenty-first century / Ned Stuckey-French
Up to a point : the psychoanalyst and the essay / Adam Phillips
Dali's Montaigne : essay hybrids and surrealist practice / Christy Wampole.

On essays : Montaigne to the present /

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