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Essays to do good : Puritanism and the birth of the American essay / Jan Stievermann -- Prattlers, meddlers, bachelors, busy-bodies : the periodical essay in the eighteenth century / Richard Squibbs -- The federalist and the founders / Matthew Garrett -- American nature writing : 1700-1900 / Noah Rawlings -- The essay and transcendentalism/ Laura Dassow Walls -- Old world shadows in the new : Europe and the nineteenth-century American essay / Philip Coleman -- Poet-essayists and magazine culture in the nineteenth century / John Michael -- Antebellum women essayists / Charlene Avallone -- Writing freedom before and after emancipation / Kinohi Nishikawa -- Social justice and the American essay / Christy Wampole -- "Zones of contention" in the genteel essay / Jenny Spinner -- The American comic essay / David E.E. Sloane -- Nineteenth-century American travel essays : aesthetics, modernity, and national identity / Brigitte Bailey -- American pragmatism : an essayistic conception of truth / Jonathan Levin -- The essay in the Harlem renaissance / Shawn Anthony Christian -- The southern agrarians and the new criticism / Sarah E. Gardner -- Subjective and objective : newspapers columns / William E. Dow -- The experience of art : the essay in visual culture / Tom Huhn -- The essay in American music / Kyle Gann -- The essay and the twentieth-century literary magazine / Eleni Theodoropoulos -- Germans in Amerika : written possibility, uninhabitable reality / Florian Fuchs -- The essay and the American left / Andrea Capra -- The native American essay / Hertha D. Sweet Wong -- Conservatism and the essay / Jeffrey R. Dudas -- Opinions and decisions : legal essays / Peter Goodrich -- World War Two to #MeToo : the personal and the political in the American feminist essay / Ellena Savage -- Self-portraits in a convex mirror : the essay in American poetry / Lucy Alford -- The American essay and (social) science / Ted Anton -- Philosophy as a kind of writing / Paul Jenner -- The essay and literary postmodernism : seriousness and exhaustion / Stefano Ercolino -- The American essay film : a neglected genre / Nora M. Alter -- Literary theory, criticism, and the essay / Carolina Iribarren -- Gender, queerness, and the American essay / David Lazar -- Disability and the American essay / Anne Finger -- The radical hybridity of the lyric essay / Michael Askew -- Writing migration : multiculturalism, democracy, and the essay form / Cyrus R.K. Patell -- Latinx culture and the essay / Yolanda Padilla -- Black experience through the essay / Walton Muyumba -- The essay and the anthropocene / David Carlin. |
