1st Edition
The Observing Self (Routledge Revivals) Rediscovering the Essay
By Graham Good
Copyright 1988
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and literary history, but as an exploration of the creative possibilities of the form. The rise of the essay is discussed in relation to the rise of the novel and the emergence of empiricism in science, but the main focus of Graham Good’s study is on the inner workings of... Read more
Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The essay as genre 2. Montaigne: the growth of experience 3. Bacon: ramifications of counsel 4. Johnson: the correction of error 5. Hazlitt: ventures of the self 6. Henry James: patterns of art and life 7. Virginia Woolf: angles of vision 8. T. S. Eliot: the process of refinement 9. George Orwell: myth and counter-myth 10. The essay and criticism; Reference list; Biographical notes; Index
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Good, Graham
