On essays: Montaigne to the present
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 Essa...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| adam_text | Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: On the Difficulty of Introducing a Work of this Kind Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy 1. On Introductions 2. On Definitions 3. On Reading 4. On Pedantry 5. On Essays 6. On Potential 1. What is An Essay? Thirteen Answers from Virginia Woolf Thomas Karshan 1. A Hippopotamus Entered at Stationers’ Hall 2. A Passionate Apprenticeship 3. A Haunting 4. A Room of One’s Own 5. A Piece of Homework 6. A Bookshop 7. A Valuation 8. A Taste 9. A Ramble 10. An Assault 11. A Deformity 12. A Sport 13. Everything and Nothing 2. The Montaignian Essay and Authored Miscellanies from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century Wanen Boutcher 1. Introduction 2. The Miscellanist and the Pedant 3. The History of the Essay before the Nineteenth Century 4. Aulus Gellius 5. Miscellaneity in D’Israeli’s Library 6. Montaigne 7. Later Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 8. Contemporary Essays and Miscellanies in D’Israeli’s Library 9. Conclusion xi xiii 1 1 3 9 13 16 28 31 31 34 35 37 39 40 41 43 44 47 49 51 53 55 55 59 61 63 66 67 71 73 76
viii CONTENTS 3. Of Sticks and Stones: The Essay, Experience, and Experiment Kathryn Murphy 1. Refuting and Refooting 2. Montaigne’s Stones 3. Bacon’s Experimental Discussions 4. Boyle’s Vicarious Experience 5. Conclusion 4. Time and the Essay: The Spectator and Diurnal Form Markman Ellis 1. Introduction 2. The Spectator and the Essay Form 3. Reading Daily, Daily Reading 4. Reading The Spectator Papers 5. Repackaging Daily Papers 5. The Sociable Philosopher: David Hume and the Philosophical Essay Fred Parker 1. Introduction 2. Shaftesbury, Socrates, and ‘the liberty of the Club’ 3. Hume’s Conversational Turn 4. Johnson: Thinking and Contingency 5. The Art of Diplomacy 6. Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding 7. Fielding and his Audience 8. In Conclusion: The Amiable Arsonist 6. Tristram Shandy, Essayist Scott Black 1. Tristram among the Essayists 2. The English Essay circa 1760 3. Tristram’s Essay 4. Gathering, Twisting, Floating 7. On Coffee-Houses, Smoking, and the English Essay Tradition Denise Gigante 1. Introduction 2. Smoking as an Ornamental Art 3. Smoking and Suburbanity 4. The Cigar Divan 78 78 81 87 91 95 97 97 99 103 105 109 114 114 115 117 119 122 127 129 131 132 132 135 140 144 150 150 152 156 160
CONTENTS ІХ 8. The Romantic Essay and the City Gregory Dart 1. Two Traditions: The Urban Periodical Essay and the Poetry of Rural Retirement 2. The Alienated Spectator 3. Healthy Associations: Lamb, Hazlitt, Hunt, and the Essay of Urban Nostalgia 4. The Enfranchised Quill: Lamb’s Lucubrations 5. Hazlitt, Coleridge, and the Whirligigof Association 167 9. Charles Lamb, Elia, and Essays in Familiarity Felicity James 1. Introduction: Re-Familiarizing Lamb 2. Traditions of the Familiar 3. Haunting the Familiar 4. Rewriting the Familiar 185 10. Carlyle, Emerson, and the Voiced Essay Tom F. Wright 1. Introduction 2. Forging Oratorical Styles 3. Constructing an Audience of Listeners 4. Orchestrating Voices 5. Charismatic Texts 167 168 171 175 179 185 191 194 201 206 206 208 213 216 221 11. Retiring or Engaging: Politics in the English Essay Ophelia Field 1. Introduction to a Paradox 2. Eighteenth-Century Consciences 3. Romantic Consciences 4. American and Modernist Consciences 5. Orwell, Baldwin, and other GuerrillaFighters 6. Polemical Exceptions 223 12. Things Said by the Way: Walter Pater and the Essay Stefano Evangelista 1. Introduction 2. Aesthetic Criticism and the Essay 3. The Novel and the Essay 241 13. ‘Strips of Essayism’: Eliot, Hardy, and the Victorian Periodical Essay Bharat Tandon 1. Writing in Tongues 2. Essayism and Essays 3. What We Know 4. Parallel Lines 223 225 229 232 234 238 241 244 252 258 258 261 262 273
X CONTENTS 14. Rational Distortions: Essayism in the British Novel after Borges Michael Wood 1. Catching Fire 2. Everything Excessive 3. In-Between Times 4. Darker Histories 5. Other Places 15. Creative Nonfiction and the Lyric Essay: The American Essay in the Twenty-First Century tNed Stuckey-French 1. Introduction: The Renaissance of the American Essay 2. Creative Nonfiction and the American University 3. The Emergence of the Lyric Essay 4. The Essay between Art and Science: Lukács and Adorno 5. Art not Fact: John d’Agata and the Lyric Essay 6. Truth if not Fact: Jo Ann Beard 7. Race as Fart and Race as Fiction: Eula Biss 8. Making Race Visible: Clauda Rankine’s Citizen 277 277 280 282 286 290 293 293 294 295 298 299 301 304 308 16. Up to a Point: The Psychoanalyst and the Essay Adam Phillips 313 17. Dali’s Montaigne: Essay Hybrids and Surrealist Practice Christy Wampole 1. Introduction 2. Dali and Surrealist Essayism 3. Evans and Agee Keep It (Sur)real 4. Marker’s Dislocated Subject 5. Bresland’s Anxious Images 6. Conclusion 323 Bibliography Index 349 365 323 327 333 338 341 345
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Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: On the Difficulty of Introducing a Work of this Kind Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy 1. On Introductions 2. On Definitions 3. On Reading 4. On Pedantry 5. On Essays 6. On Potential 1. What is An Essay? Thirteen Answers from Virginia Woolf Thomas Karshan 1. A Hippopotamus Entered at Stationers’ Hall 2. A Passionate Apprenticeship 3. A Haunting 4. A Room of One’s Own 5. A Piece of Homework 6. A Bookshop 7. A Valuation 8. A Taste 9. A Ramble 10. An Assault 11. A Deformity 12. A Sport 13. Everything and Nothing 2. The Montaignian Essay and Authored Miscellanies from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century Wanen Boutcher 1. Introduction 2. The Miscellanist and the Pedant 3. The History of the Essay before the Nineteenth Century 4. Aulus Gellius 5. Miscellaneity in D’Israeli’s Library 6. Montaigne 7. Later Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 8. Contemporary Essays and Miscellanies in D’Israeli’s Library 9. Conclusion xi xiii 1 1 3 9 13 16 28 31 31 34 35 37 39 40 41 43 44 47 49 51 53 55 55 59 61 63 66 67 71 73 76
viii CONTENTS 3. Of Sticks and Stones: The Essay, Experience, and Experiment Kathryn Murphy 1. Refuting and Refooting 2. Montaigne’s Stones 3. Bacon’s Experimental Discussions 4. Boyle’s Vicarious Experience 5. Conclusion 4. Time and the Essay: The Spectator and Diurnal Form Markman Ellis 1. Introduction 2. The Spectator and the Essay Form 3. Reading Daily, Daily Reading 4. Reading The Spectator Papers 5. Repackaging Daily Papers 5. The Sociable Philosopher: David Hume and the Philosophical Essay Fred Parker 1. Introduction 2. Shaftesbury, Socrates, and ‘the liberty of the Club’ 3. Hume’s Conversational Turn 4. Johnson: Thinking and Contingency 5. The Art of Diplomacy 6. Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding 7. Fielding and his Audience 8. In Conclusion: The Amiable Arsonist 6. Tristram Shandy, Essayist Scott Black 1. Tristram among the Essayists 2. The English Essay circa 1760 3. Tristram’s Essay 4. Gathering, Twisting, Floating 7. On Coffee-Houses, Smoking, and the English Essay Tradition Denise Gigante 1. Introduction 2. Smoking as an Ornamental Art 3. Smoking and Suburbanity 4. The Cigar Divan 78 78 81 87 91 95 97 97 99 103 105 109 114 114 115 117 119 122 127 129 131 132 132 135 140 144 150 150 152 156 160
CONTENTS ІХ 8. The Romantic Essay and the City Gregory Dart 1. Two Traditions: The Urban Periodical Essay and the Poetry of Rural Retirement 2. The Alienated Spectator 3. Healthy Associations: Lamb, Hazlitt, Hunt, and the Essay of Urban Nostalgia 4. The Enfranchised Quill: Lamb’s Lucubrations 5. Hazlitt, Coleridge, and the Whirligigof Association 167 9. Charles Lamb, Elia, and Essays in Familiarity Felicity James 1. Introduction: Re-Familiarizing Lamb 2. Traditions of the Familiar 3. Haunting the Familiar 4. Rewriting the Familiar 185 10. Carlyle, Emerson, and the Voiced Essay Tom F. Wright 1. Introduction 2. Forging Oratorical Styles 3. Constructing an Audience of Listeners 4. Orchestrating Voices 5. Charismatic Texts 167 168 171 175 179 185 191 194 201 206 206 208 213 216 221 11. Retiring or Engaging: Politics in the English Essay Ophelia Field 1. Introduction to a Paradox 2. Eighteenth-Century Consciences 3. Romantic Consciences 4. American and Modernist Consciences 5. Orwell, Baldwin, and other GuerrillaFighters 6. Polemical Exceptions 223 12. Things Said by the Way: Walter Pater and the Essay Stefano Evangelista 1. Introduction 2. Aesthetic Criticism and the Essay 3. The Novel and the Essay 241 13. ‘Strips of Essayism’: Eliot, Hardy, and the Victorian Periodical Essay Bharat Tandon 1. Writing in Tongues 2. Essayism and Essays 3. What We Know 4. Parallel Lines 223 225 229 232 234 238 241 244 252 258 258 261 262 273
X CONTENTS 14. Rational Distortions: Essayism in the British Novel after Borges Michael Wood 1. Catching Fire 2. Everything Excessive 3. In-Between Times 4. Darker Histories 5. Other Places 15. Creative Nonfiction and the Lyric Essay: The American Essay in the Twenty-First Century tNed Stuckey-French 1. Introduction: The Renaissance of the American Essay 2. Creative Nonfiction and the American University 3. The Emergence of the Lyric Essay 4. The Essay between Art and Science: Lukács and Adorno 5. Art not Fact: John d’Agata and the Lyric Essay 6. Truth if not Fact: Jo Ann Beard 7. Race as Fart and Race as Fiction: Eula Biss 8. Making Race Visible: Clauda Rankine’s Citizen 277 277 280 282 286 290 293 293 294 295 298 299 301 304 308 16. Up to a Point: The Psychoanalyst and the Essay Adam Phillips 313 17. Dali’s Montaigne: Essay Hybrids and Surrealist Practice Christy Wampole 1. Introduction 2. Dali and Surrealist Essayism 3. Evans and Agee Keep It (Sur)real 4. Marker’s Dislocated Subject 5. Bresland’s Anxious Images 6. Conclusion 323 Bibliography Index 349 365 323 327 333 338 341 345 |
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