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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gigante, Denise, 1965- editor.

Childs, Jason (Independent scholar), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English essays--History and criticism.

English essays.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxi, 857 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 748-804) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cambridge history of the British essay

ISBN:

9781316516508

1316516504

9781009015714

1009015710

OCLC:

1390117651