The Cambridge history of the British essay / edited by Denise Gigante, Jason Childs.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
  • ©2024
Description
xxi, 857 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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"This book provides multiple perspectives on a key form of public discourse, addressing the essay's postcolonial (Irish, Indian, African, American) and gendered contexts, its material manifestations in print (newspapers, essay periodicals, reviews, magazines), visual culture, and digital forms through today's blogosphere"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 748-804) and index.
Contents
  • Ancient influences on the essay / Henry Power
  • Surprised into form : the beginnings of the English essay / Kathryn Murphy
  • Miscellanies, commonplace books, and the essay / Angus Vine
  • Incoherence brought to order : empiricism and the essay / Tim Milnes
  • The sermon and the essay / Noam Reisner
  • Anger, rhetoric, and early women essayists / Merve Emre
  • The polemical essay in pamphlets, newsbooks, and periodicals / Andrew Benjamin Bricker and Marissa Nicosia
  • Between public and private : letters, diaries, essays / Eve Tavor Bannet
  • The art of criticism : essay as citation / Jacob Sider Jost
  • Essayistic personae and personhood / James Robert Wood
  • Clubs and coffeehouses : sociability and the essay / Jon Mee and Jennifer Buckley
  • Loose sallies of the mind : distraction and the essay / Natalie M. Phillips and Sydney Logsdon
  • The essay and the rise of the novel / Jenny Davidson
  • The periodical essay and the rise of literary professionalism / Paul Keen
  • On books : the bibliographical essay / Denise Gigante
  • Satire and the essay / John Strachan
  • Food and the essay / Amy L. Tigner
  • Forms of thought : dreams, reverie, and the essay / Margaret Russett
  • The urban familiar essay of the romantic era / Uttara Natarajan
  • The essay and the theme / Thomas Karshan
  • The academic essay : rhetoric and pedagogy / Jon Klancher
  • The essay and the rise of university English / Alexandra Lawrie
  • Victorian essays in criticism / Jason Camlot
  • Nineteenth-century reviews reviewed / Robert Morrison
  • Essays in the 'golden age' of the British newspaper / Joanne Shattock
  • The essay in the age of chartism / Gregory Vargo
  • Political theory and ethics in the Victorian essay / Bart Schultz
  • Plain English : essays and analytic philosophy / Erin Plunkett
  • The preface essay / Mario Aquilina
  • A brief history of travel and the essay / Barbara Schaff
  • Grist for the mill : history and the essay in India, 1870-1920 / Priti Joshi
  • The African gold coast essay : straddling fact and prophecy / Jeanne-Marie Jackson
  • The short essay in context, 1870-1920 / Eric Tippin
  • A room of one's own : the new woman and the essay / Rebecca Rainof
  • The essay in the age of catastrophe / Rachel Baldacchino
  • Undiplomatic relations : modernism and the essay / Michael Wood
  • Feeling real : psychoanalysis and the essay / David Russell
  • Transatlantic essayism / Philip Coleman
  • The eye and the I : essay and image / Kevin Brazil
  • Of human suffering : the essay and ekphrasis / Kara Wittman
  • After empire : postcolonialism and the essay / Saikat Majumdar
  • Performance and the Irish essay / Paige Reynolds
  • The essay and the public intellectual / Peter Marks
  • Essayism in literary theory / Ronan McDonald
  • The essay in the career of the contemporary British novelist / Martin Paul Eve
  • Blogging in Britain : essays in the digital age / Joshua Pugh
  • The essay, ecocriticism, and the anthropocene / Richard Kerridge.
ISBN
  • 9781316516508 (hardcover)
  • 1316516504 (hardcover)
  • 9781009015714 (paperback)
  • 1009015710 (paperback)
LCCN
2023028329
OCLC
1390117651
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