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Title:

The Cambridge companion to the essay / edited by Kara Wittman, Evan Kindley.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

xxxiv, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Essay--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Wittman, Kara, editor.
Kindley, Evan, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The essay online / Jane Hu. The personal essay / Merve Emre -- The critical essay / Frances Ferguson -- The nature essay / Daegan Miller -- The essay in theory / Kara Wittman -- Essay and experiment / Julianne Werlin -- Essay, enlightenment, revolution / Anahid Nersessian -- The essay, abolition, and racial blackness / Jesse McCarthy -- The utopian essay / Ignacio M. Sánchez-Prado -- Ethics and the essay / David Russell -- Essay and empire / Saikat Majumdar -- Unqueering the essay / Grace Lavery -- The essay and the novel / Jason Childs -- Lyric, essay / Claire Grossman, Juliana Spahr, and Stephanie Young -- The photograph as essay / Kevin Adonis Browne -- The essay film / Nora M. Alter -- The essay online / Jane Hu.

Summary:

"This Companion, written by a diverse group of scholars for an audience of students and professors, considers the history, theory, and aesthetics of the essay form from the sixteenth century to the present"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

ISBN:

1316519775
9781316519776
1009011146
9781009011143

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1334896738

LCCN:

2022016872

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)