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| Preface | |
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| Toward a Collective Poetics of the Essay | |
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| From "Of Practice," "Of Repentance," and "Of Vanity"-1580 | |
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| From "Of Essays and Books"-1600-1601 | |
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| From The Praficience and Advancement of Learning-1605 | |
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| From the Spectator-1712 | |
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| From the Rambler-1751 | |
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| From "On the Periodical Essayists"-1815 | |
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| From an Unpublished Review of Hazlitt�s Table Talk-1821 | |
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| From "Montaigne, or the Skeptic"-1850 | |
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| From "On the "Writing of Essays"-1863 | |
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| From "Dialectic"-1893 | |
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| From "The Passing of the Essay"-1894 | |
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| From "Editors Easy Chair"-1901 | |
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| From "To the Reader"-1914 | |
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| From "The Art of the Essayist"-1922 | |
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| From "The Modern Essay"-19x5 | |
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| "An Essay on Virginia"-1915 | |
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| "An Essay upon Essays upon Essays"-1929 | |
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| From The Man without Qualities-1930 | |
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| �The Essay�-1932 | |
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| From "An Essay on Essays"-1935 | |
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| From "The Essay"-1938 | |
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| From "In Defense of the Essay"-1946 | |
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| From "On the Essay and Its Prose"-1947 | |
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| From "On the Essay"-1954 | |
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| From "The Essay in Our America"-1956 | |
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| From "The Essay as Form"-1958 | |
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| From the Preface to Collected Essays-1960 | |
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| "An Essay on the Essay"-1965 | |
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| "Ramblings on the Essay"-1972 | |
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| "The Limits of the Essay"-1976 | |
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| "What I Think, What I Am"-1976 | |
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| From the Foreword to Essays of E. B. White-1977 | |
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| From "Emerson and the Essay"-1982 | |
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| From "Can One Define the Essay?"-1983 | |
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| "Little Essayistic"-1983 | |
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| From the Introduction to The Best American Essays-1986 | |
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| From "Alfonso Reyes' Wheelbarrow"-1988 | |
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| From "The Singular First Person"-1988 | |
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| "What Happened to the Personal Essay?"-1989 | |
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| From the Introduction to Tuxedo Junction-1989 | |
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| Introduction to The Best American Essays-1992. | |
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| From "Essaying the Feminine"-1994 | |
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| From "f-Words: An Essay on the Essay"-1996 | |
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| "She: Portrait of the Essay as a Warm Body"-1998 | |
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| From The Situation and the Story-2001 | |
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| From "2003" in The Next American Essay-2003 | |
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| From "The Age of the Essay"-2004 | |
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| From "The Essay as Hack"-2008 | |
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| "On the Origin of the Video Essay"-2011 | |
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| "Essay on the Radio Essay"-2011 | |
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| Bibliography, compiled by Ned Stuckey-French | |
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| Thematic Guide to Entries in the Bibliography, compiled by Ned Stuckey-French | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Index | |