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Montaigne is one of the most cross-cultural writers ever - both in
the assimilation of writings from other cultures into his own work
and in the subsequent translations, critical receptions, and
creative adaptations of the Essais by other writers throughout the
world for the last four hundred years. His work is generally
considered as exemplary of the European Renaissance, yet also
demonstrates a remarkable relevance to the literary and
intellectual activity at the present time. However, whereas there
has been an abundance of commentary on Montaigne during the first
centuries after his death, much less attention has been paid to his
impact on writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
particularly those outside France. This study redresses the
imbalance. By establishing a stylistic and ideological relationship
between Montaigne's work and that of such writers as Emerson,
Nietzsche, Pater, Woolf, and Sollers, we not only gain a greater
appreciation of the richness of the Essays, but also of some of the
roots of modernist and postmodernist writing.
There is a subtle but significant French heritage in North
Carolina. The first European explorers to the North Carolina region
were, in fact, French (1524). French Huguenots migrated to the
state as early as 1690, and many North Carolinians have family
names of French origin. Towns such as Bath, Beaufort, New Bern, and
La Grange are a testimony to French settlers in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, and the city of Fayetteville is named after
the Marquis de Lafayette, a French ally during the American
Revolution. Beyond names, North Carolina has many other remnants of
the French presence sprinkled throughout the state. Built from
materials gathered from archives, libraries, interviews, and
photographs of locations relevant to the historical presence of the
French in North Carolina, this book traces the French heritage in
North Carolina from its origins to the present and tells the story
of a little-known but important part of North Carolina's cultural
history.
This book enhances our understanding of France and the United
States by focusing on their intercultural relations. Baudelaire and
Emerson have at the core of their thinking the very notion of how
to reconcile individual and collective experience, a theme that is
pervasive in French-American relations. A historical perspective to
contemporary issues regarding the French-American connection helps
us to come to terms with some of the pressing problems currently
facing France and the United States and to view some key literary
texts in a new light.
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