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Montaigne called it a ramble; Chesterton the joke of literature; and Hume an ambassador between the worlds of learning and of conversation. But what is an essay, and how did it emerge as a literary form? What are the continuities and contradictions across its history, from Montaigne''s 1580 Essais through the familiar intimacies of the Romantic essay, and up to more recent essayists such as Virgin...
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Montaigne called it a ramble; Chesterton the joke of literature; and Hume an ambassador between the worlds of learning and of conversation. But what is an essay, and how did it emerge as a literary form? What are the continuities and contradictions across its history, from Montaigne''s 1580 Essais through the familiar intimacies of the Romantic essay, and up to more recent essayists such as Virgin...
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