Essaying Montaigne
A Study of the Renaissance Institution of Writing and Reading
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
272 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2001
Contents
Preface to the revised edition
To the Reader
1. Society and Self-study: the Problem of Literary Authority
2. Literary Anxiety and the Romance of Books
3. Rival Readings
4. Writing and Embodiment
5. Reading and Temperament
6. The Paradox of Communication: Reading the Essays Otherwise
7. Portrait of the Essayist Without Qualities
8. On Public and Private Life
9. Civilisation, Literacy and Barbarism
10. On Living and Dying as We Do
Notes
Bibliography
Index
To the Reader
1. Society and Self-study: the Problem of Literary Authority
2. Literary Anxiety and the Romance of Books
3. Rival Readings
4. Writing and Embodiment
5. Reading and Temperament
6. The Paradox of Communication: Reading the Essays Otherwise
7. Portrait of the Essayist Without Qualities
8. On Public and Private Life
9. Civilisation, Literacy and Barbarism
10. On Living and Dying as We Do
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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