{"product_id":"essaying-the-essay","title":"Essaying the Essay","description":"\u003cp\u003eIncludes essays by:\u003cstrong\u003e Michel de Montaigne William Cornwallis Thomas Culpepper Charles Colton Joseph Addison David Hume Samuel Johnson Leigh Hunt William Hazlitt Charles Lamb Ralph Waldo Emerson Alexander Smith Virginia Woolf Georg Lukàcs Christopher Morley G. K. Chesterton Theodor Adorno Robert Atwan Réda Bensmaïa Carl Klaus R. Lane Kauffmann Phillip Lopate Hélène Cixous Rachel Blau DuPlessis Nancy Mairs Cynthia Ozick John D'Agata Brian Lennon Lia Purpura David Shields\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays features essayists writing about the essay as a literary form from its creation in the fifteenth century by Michel de Montaigne to its contemporary manifestations. The essays consider define categorize and reveal aspects of the essay differently from any other anthology and the anthology contains work that is not anthologized elsewhere. Included are essays by Hume Lamb Emerson Woolf Chesterton Adorno David Shields and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Lazar\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Body of Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ePowder Town \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eOccasional Desire: Personal Essays. \u003c\/em\u003eHe is the editor of \u003cem\u003eTruth in Nonfiction Michael Powell: Interviews \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eConversations with M. F .K. Fisher \u003c\/em\u003eand the literary journal \u003cem\u003eHotel Amerika. \u003c\/em\u003eHe is the director of Nonfiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526308319507,"sku":"9780988592612","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/img_proxy_cd7f1a90-1688-48f3-9168-48a6c4f52acf.jpg?v=1785850407","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/essaying-the-essay","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}