{"product_id":"the-cambridge-history-of-the-british-essay-hardback-9781316516508","title":"The Cambridge History of the British Essay (Hardback) 9781316516508","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge History of the British Essay\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first major study of the history of the Anglophone essay in its diverse –political, media, public-intellectual, academic, philosophical—contexts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDenise Gigante (Edited by), Jason Childs (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781316516508, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e880 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 5 cm, 1.38 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'An opportunity to observe a notoriously elusive mode of writing from all sorts of revealing angles. The range of expertise represented by the book's fifty-one contributors gives readers a series of lenses, ground to different focal lengths of interest, through which they can look at aspects of the British essay.' Chris Arthur, World Literature Today Magazine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFrom ancient influences on the essay as a form of rhetoric to the Irish essay as performance, from British imperial propaganda to African postcolonial resistance, from political pamphlets to the rise of literary professionalism, from gastronomy to ecocriticism, The Cambridge History of the British Essay offers the first authoritative single-volume history of the form's development within the British literary tradition. It restores to the contemporary understanding of the essay an appreciation of its true richness and diversity. The fifty contributors to this volume come from widely diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise that brings out neglected pockets of essayistic activity, by women, by persons of colour, by poets and pamphleteers. Together, they show how the form morphs to serve new contexts and concerns, remaining a vital genre of literary 'attempt' in the fields of journalism, academic study, autobiography and other forms of life writing, and online language arts.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Forming the British Essay: 1. Ancient influences on the essay Henry Power\u003cbr\u003e 2. Surprised into form: the beginnings of the english essay Kathryn Murphy\u003cbr\u003e 3. Miscellanies, commonplace books, and the essay Angus Vine\u003cbr\u003e 4. Incoherence brought to order: empiricism and the essay Tim Milnes\u003cbr\u003e 5. The sermon and the essay Noam Reisner\u003cbr\u003e 6. Anger, rhetoric, and early women essayists Merve Emre\u003cbr\u003e 7. The polemical essay in pamphlets, newsbooks, and periodicals Andrew Benjamin Bricker and Marissa Nicosia\u003cbr\u003e 8. Between public and private: letters, diaries, essays Eve Tavor Bannet\u003cbr\u003e 9. The art of criticism: essay as citation Jacob Sider Jost\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Great Age of the British Essay: 10. Essayistic personae and personhood James Robert Wood\u003cbr\u003e 11. Clubs and coffeehouses: sociability and the essay Jon Mee and Jennifer Buckley\u003cbr\u003e 12. Loose sallies of the mind: distraction and the essay Natalie M. Phillips and Sydney Logsdon\u003cbr\u003e 13. The essay and the rise of the novel Jenny Davidson\u003cbr\u003e 14. The periodical essay and the rise of literary professionalism Paul Keen\u003cbr\u003e 15. On books: the bibliographical essay Denise Gigante\u003cbr\u003e 16. Satire and the essay John Strachan\u003cbr\u003e 17. Food and the essay Amy L. Tigner\u003cbr\u003e 18. Forms of thought: dreams, reverie, and the essay Margaret Russett\u003cbr\u003e 19. The urban familiar essay of the romantic era Uttara Natarajan\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Assaying Culture, Education, Reform: 20. The essay and the theme Thomas Karshan\u003cbr\u003e 21. The academic essay: rhetoric and pedagogy Jon Klancher\u003cbr\u003e 22. The essay and the rise of university english Alexandra Lawrie\u003cbr\u003e 23. Victorian essays in criticism Jason Camlot\u003cbr\u003e 24. Nineteenth-century reviews reviewed Robert Morrison\u003cbr\u003e 25. Essays in the golden age of the British newspaper Joanne Shattock\u003cbr\u003e 26. The essay in the age of Chartism Gregory Vargo\u003cbr\u003e 27. Political theory and ethics in the Victorian essay Bart Schultz\u003cbr\u003e 28. Plain english: essays and analytic philosophy Erin Plunkett\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Fractures Selves, Fragmented Worlds: 29. The preface essay Mario Aquilina\u003cbr\u003e 30. A brief history of travel and the essay Barbara Schaff\u003cbr\u003e 31. Grist for the mill: history and the essay in India, 1870-1920 Priti Joshi\u003cbr\u003e 32. The African gold coast essay: straddling fact and prophecy Jeanne-Marie Jackson\u003cbr\u003e 33. The short essay in context, 1870-1920 Eric Tippin\u003cbr\u003e 34. A room of one's own: the new woman and the essay Rebecca Rainof\u003cbr\u003e 35. The essay in the age of catastrophe Rachel Baldacchino\u003cbr\u003e 36. Undiplomatic relations: modernism and the essay Michael Wood\u003cbr\u003e 37 Feeling real: psychoanalysis and the essay David Russell\u003cbr\u003e 38. Transatlantic essayism Philip Coleman\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Essay and the Essayistic Today: 39. The eye and the i: essay and image Kevin Brazil\u003cbr\u003e 40. Of human suffering: the essay and ekphrasis Kara Wittman\u003cbr\u003e 41. After empire: postcolonialism and the essay Saikat Majumdar\u003cbr\u003e 42. Performance and the Irish essay Paige Reynolds\u003cbr\u003e 43. The essay and the public intellectual Peter Marks\u003cbr\u003e 44. Essayism in literary theory Ronan McDonald\u003cbr\u003e 45. The essay in the career of the contemporary British novelist Martin Paul Eve\u003cbr\u003e 46. Blogging in Britain: essays in the digital age Joshua Pugh\u003cbr\u003e 47. 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