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| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | On essays : Montaigne to the present/ edited by Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy. |
| 개인저자 | Karshan, Thomas,editor, Murphy, Kathryn,editor, |
| 판사항 | First edition. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN | 9780191082115 0191082112 9780191017537 0191017531 9780191779008 0191779008 |
| 내용주기 | Cover -- On Essays: Montaigne to the Present -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements and Note on the Text -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: On the Difficulty of Introducing a Work of this Kind -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 3: Of Sticks and Stones: The Essay, Experience, and Experiment 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Smoking as an Ornamental Art -- 3. Smoking and Suburbanity -- 4. The Cigar Divan -- 8: The Romantic Essay and the City 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 Whirligig of Association -- 9: Charles Lamb, Elia, and Essays in Familiarity -- 1. Introduction: Re-Familiarizing Lamb -- 2. Traditions of the Familiar -- 3. Haunting the Familiar -- 4. Rewriting the Familiar -- 10: Carlyle, Emerson, and the Voiced Essay -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Forging Oratorical Styles |
| 요약 | 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. |
| 일반주제명 | English essays --History and criticism. American essays --History and criticism. |
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