On Essays
Montaigne to the Present
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 September 2020
- ISBN 9780198707868
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages398 pages
- Size 242x165x29 mm
- Weight 760 g
- Language English 42
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Short description:
Sets out in a new and authoritative way the history of the essay; explains how the essay has come to mean what it does, surveys the widely various incarnations of the form, offers new accounts of major essayists in English, and traces a wide range of significant themes.
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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?
Sometimes 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.
Perhaps 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.
Original research, innovative analysis, and clear writing make this ode to the essay an exemplary piece of scholarship. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: On the difficulty of introducing a work of this kind
What is an Essay? Thirteen Answers from Virginia Woolf
The Montaignian Essay and Authored Miscellanies from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
Of Sticks and Stones: The Essay, Experience, and Experiment
Time and the Essay: The Spectator and Diurnal Fomr
The Sociable Philosopher: David Hume and the Philosophical Essay
Tristram Shandy, Essayist
On Coffee Houses, Smoking, and the English Essay Tradition
The Romantic Essay and the City
Charles Lamb, Elia, and Essays in Familiarity
Carlyle, Emerson, and the Voiced Essay
Retiring or Engaging: Politics in the English Essay
Things Said By The Way: Walter Pater and the Essay
'Strips of Essayism': Eliot, Hardy, and the Victorian Periodical Essay
Rational Distortions: Essays in the British Novel After Borges
Creative Non-Fiction and the Lyric Essay: The American Essay in the Twenty-First Century
Up To A Point: The Psychoanalyst and the Essay
Dalí's Montaigne: Essay Hybrids and Surrealist Practice
