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The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two: The Reader-Writer
Warren Boutcher
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Description for The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two: The Reader-Writer
Hardcover. The second volume of a major two-volume study of the fortunes of Michel de Montaigne's Essais in both the early-modern (1580-1725) and the modern period (1900-2000). Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works. Num Pages: 576 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADF; 3J; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. The two ... Read more
This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. The two ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198739661
SKU
V9780198739661
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Ref
99-28
About Warren Boutcher
Warren Boutcher is Reader in Renaissance Studies in the School of English and Drama, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Queen Mary University of London. He has published extensively on Montaigne and on humanism, translation, and the history of the book and of libraries in early modern England, France, and Italy.
Reviews for The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two: The Reader-Writer
[Boucher] gives us an in-depth account of Montaigne's literary influence across the Western world from the sixteenth century to the present day.
Patrick J. Murray, The Times Literary Supplement
Patrick J. Murray, The Times Literary Supplement