Great Age of the English Essay

Book Overview

A collection of outstanding British periodical essays from the era in which the genre was invented

From the pens of spectators, ramblers, idlers, tattlers, hypochondriacs, connoisseurs, and loungers, a new literary genre emerged in eighteenth-century England: the periodical essay. Situated between classical rhetoric and the novel, the English essay challenged the borders between fiction and nonfiction prose and helped forge the tastes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300141963
• ISBN13: 9780300141962
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"