The Cambridge History of the British Essay

Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface to a History in the Manner of an Essay
	Part I - Forming the British Essay
1 - Ancient Influences on the Essay
2 - Surprised into Form: The Beginnings of the English Essay
3 - Miscellanies, Commonplace Books, and the Essay
4 - Incoherence Brought to Order: Empiricism and the Essay
5 - The Sermon and the Essay
6 - Anger, Rhetoric, and Early Women Essayists
7 - The Polemical Essay in Pamphlets, Newsbooks, and Periodicals
8 - Between Public and Private: Letters, Diaries, Essays
9 - The Art of Criticism: Essay as Citation
	Part II - The Great Age of the British Essay
10 - Essayistic Personae and Personhood
11 - Clubs and Coffeehouses: Sociability and the Essay
12 - Loose Sallies of the Mind: Distraction and the Essay
13 - The Essay and the Rise of the Novel
14 - The Periodical Essay and the Rise of Literary Professionalism
15 - On Books: The Bibliographical Essay
16 - Satire and the Essay
17 - Food and the Essay
18 - Forms of Thought: Dreams, Reverie, and the Essay
19 - The Urban Familiar Essay of the Romantic Era
	Part III - Assaying Culture, Education, Reform
20 - The Essay and the Theme
21 - The Academic Essay: Rhetoric and Pedagogy
22 - The Essay and the Rise of University English
23 - Victorian Essays in Criticism
24 - Nineteenth-Century Reviews Reviewed
25 - Essays in the ‘Golden Age’ of the British Newspaper
26 - The Essay in the Age of Chartism
27 - Political Theory and Ethics in the Victorian Essay
28 - Plain English: Essays and Analytic Philosophy
	Part IV - Fractured Selves, Fragmented Worlds
29 - The Preface Essay
30 - A Brief History of Travel and the Essay
31 - Grist for the Mill: History and the Essay in India, 1870–1920
32 - The African Gold Coast Essay: Straddling Fact and Prophecy
33 - The Short Essay in Context, 1870–1920
34 - A Room of One’s Own: The New Woman and the Essay
35 - The Essay in the Age of Catastrophe
36 - Undiplomatic Relations: Modernism and the Essay
37 - Feeling Real: Psychoanalysis and the Essay
38 - Transatlantic Essayism
	Part V - The Essay and the Essayistic Today
39 - The Eye and the I: Essay and Image
40 - Of Human Suffering: The Essay and Ekphrasis
41 - After Empire: Postcolonialism and the Essay
42 - Performance and the Irish Essay
43 - The Essay and the Public Intellectual
44 - Essayism in Literary Theory
45 - The Essay in the Career of the Contemporary British Novelist
46 - Blogging in Britain: Essays in the Digital Age
47 - The Essay, Ecocriticism, and the Anthropocene
	Appendix 1 - Alphabetical List of Essayists
	Appendix 2 - Chronological List of Essayists
Bibliography
Index