Essaying the Essay

An historical overview of essays that reflexively speak about the essay, starting with Montaigne and venturing through Hume, Johnson, Hazlitt, Lamb, Emerson, Woolf, Lukacs, Woolf, Adorno, Cixous, Phillip Lopate, Cynthia Ozick, Lia Purpura, John D’Agata and David Shields.