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The Essay Tradition

An essay is a piece of prose that thinks. Argument is welcome but not required; the form's distinguishing feature is the visible movement of a mind —...

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An essay is a piece of prose that thinks. Argument is welcome but not required; the form's distinguishing feature is the visible movement of a mind — turning a question over, qualifying, doubting, returning, surprising itself. Key sections include: The Essay.; Opening What an essay is.; Chapter I Montaigne, the inventor.; Chapter II Bacon, the other founder.; Chapter III The periodical essay.; Chapter IV The Romantic familiar essay.; Chapter V Victorian and American 19th century.; Chapter VI Modernist essayists.; Chapter VII The New Yorker essay.; Chapter VIII The serious magazine essay..

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  1. 01The Essay.
  2. 02Opening What an essay is.
  3. 03Chapter I Montaigne, the inventor.
  4. 04Chapter II Bacon, the other founder.
  5. 05Chapter III The periodical essay.
  6. 06Chapter IV The Romantic familiar essay.
  7. 07Chapter V Victorian and American 19th century.
  8. 08Chapter VI Modernist essayists.
  9. 09Chapter VII The New Yorker essay.
  10. 10Chapter VIII The serious magazine essay.
  11. 11Chapter IX New Journalism.
  12. 12Chapter X The lyric essay.
  13. 13Chapter XI Auto-theory and the personal.
  14. 14Chapter XII The political essay.
  15. 15Chapter XIII The essay outside English.
  16. 16Chapter XIV Where essays appear.
  17. 17Chapter XV What makes an essay good.
  18. 18Chapter XVI The essay as criticism.
  19. 19Chapter XVII The essay online.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII Teaching the essay.
  21. 21Chapter XIX Twenty single essays.
  22. 22Chapter XX The case against the essay.
  23. 23Chapter XXI The contemporary scene.
  24. 24Chapter XXII The AI question.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII Twenty-five works.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV Watch & read.
  27. 27Chapter XXV If you want to write essays.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI Why the essay matters.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII The next decade.
  30. 30The end of the deck.
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