Boutcher, Warren. The school of Montaigne in early modern Europe

Folger bibliographic ID: 352076
Folger call number: PQ1645 .B68 2017
Folger holdings ID: 500714

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript

Edition

First edition

General notes

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Contents

v. 1. The patron-author -- v.2. The reader-writer

Extended title: The school of Montaigne in early modern Europe / Warren Boutcher

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais French essays

author: Boutcher, Warren