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First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a
literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and
literary history, but as an exploration of the creative
possibilities of the form. The rise of the essay is discussed in
relation to the rise of the novel and the emergence of empiricism
in science, but the main focus of Graham Good s study is on the
inner workings of the essay itself. Drawing on criticism by Adorno
and Lukacs, Graham Good presents the genre as an expression of
individualism, freed from tradition and authority, in which the
self constructs itself and its object through independent
observation. Through analysis of the work of such essayists as
Montaigne, Bacon, Virginia Wolf, T. S. Eliot and George Orwell, the
potential of the genre for independence and individualism is
illustrated, and the essay is resituated as an intellectually
challenging form of creative and critical writing."
First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a
literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and
literary history, but as an exploration of the creative
possibilities of the form. The rise of the essay is discussed in
relation to the rise of the novel and the emergence of empiricism
in science, but the main focus of Graham Good's study is on the
inner workings of the essay itself. Drawing on criticism by Adorno
and Lukacs, Good presents the genre as an expression of
individualism, freed from tradition and authority, in which the
self constructs itself and its object through independent
observation. Through analysis of the work of such essayists as
Montaigne, Bacon, Virginia Wolf, T. S. Eliot and George Orwell, the
potential of the genre for independence and individualism is
illustrated, and the essay is resituated as an intellectually
challenging form of creative and critical writing.
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