Montaigne in Transit: Essays in Honour of Ian Maclean

Neil Kenny; Richard Scholar; Wes Williams

Montaigne in Transit
Essays in Honour of Ian Maclean

Edited by Neil Kenny, Richard Scholar and Wes Williams

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Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), French essayist

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19 December 2016 • 282pp

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This volume tracks a Montaigne ‘in transit’ all the way from the genesis and production of his Essais and travel journal in the 1570s–90s to their diffusion and reception from the 1580s up till the present day, in France, England, Germany, and elsewhere. The contributors take those key terms – genesis, production, diffusion, reception – as their starting-point, but show that the boundaries between them are blurred. How does embodied thought move through space and time between the author and reader of the Essais? Can the role of the ancient writers whom Montaigne quotes be assessed without consideration of the differences he knew there would be between readers’ capacities to recognise and contextualise those quotations? Where does Montaigne’s punctuation end and that of his compositors, editors, and translators begin?

This volume asks such questions by exploring transit as a critical concept cutting across different languages, places, and times. Its authors include leading specialists in early modern French and English studies. It is a tribute to Ian Maclean, whose own trailblazing work has moved through and across numerous fields of early modern learned culture.

Reviews:

‘Montaigne in Transit proves one of the finest volumes on this overworked author... In a reflective Afterword, Ian Maclean celebrates the scholarly exchanges out of which this volume grew and the generosity inherent in intellectual work. Another aspect that ties these contributions together lies in how the authors foreground the practice of close reading. Such patience with ‘slow’ reading is a welcome change from more ambitious quantifiable, contextualizing, and politicizing forms of criticism that currently dominate the field. The contributors intelligently defend their choice not as an antidote or alternative to these other approaches but as a needed counterweight and complement.’ — George Hoffmann, Modern Language Review 113.3, July 2018, 658-59 (full text online)
‘In a reading of Montaigne’s classical allusions in ‘Sur des Vers de Virgile’, Terence Cave finds the essayist resurrecting the dead: ‘The quotations from Virgil and Lucretius are haptic, erotic; they come to life, become bodies. And their life flows palpably over into Montaigne’s prose.’ Cave’s is the first of several essays in the wonderful collection Montaigne in Transit to explore metaphors for Montaigne’s thought and quotation practice, and to evaluate how we study Montaigne’s relation to other texts.’ — Peter Auger, Translation and Literature 27, 2019, 353-60 (full text online)
‘In sum, the journey through these essays is well worth the effort and strongly recommended to seasoned specialists and fellow travelers interested in the historical development of learned culture in Europe from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. This reviewer wishes them a bon voyage!’ — Michael Wolfe, Sixteenth Century Journal 49.3, 2018, 885-87

Contents:

ix-xii	Notes On the Contributors Neil Kenny, Richard Scholar, Wes Williams doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.3	Cite
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xiii-xiv	References and Abbreviations Neil Kenny, Richard Scholar, Wes Williams doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.4	Cite
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1-6	Introduction Neil Kenny, Richard Scholar, Wes Williams doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.5	Cite
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9-18	Chapter 1 the Transit of Venus: Feeling Your Way Forward Terence Cave doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.6	Cite
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19-36	Chapter 2 A Case in Transit: Reading Diderot (reading Montaigne) Reading Augustine Kate E. Tunstall doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.7	Cite
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39-60	Chapter 3 ‘No Book Was So Bad’: Montaigne and Angelo Poliziano Rowan Tomlinson doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.8	Cite
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61-76	Chapter 4 Facebook Avant La Lettre: Communicating Renaissance-Style in Montaigne’s Essais Kathy Eden doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.9	Cite
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77-96	Chapter 5 Uneasy States of Matrimony: Marriage in Transit in Montaigne’s Essais Chimène Bateman doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.10	Cite
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97-106	Chapter 6 Montaigne’s Vanity Frank Lestringant doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.11	Cite
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107-132	Chapter 7 Butchering the Cannibals: Essais I.31 Dismembered For Florio’s Modern Readers Warren Boutcher doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.12	Cite
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135-154	Chapter 8 Montaigne and Juvenal: Intertextual Recognition and the Readership of the Essais Emma Herdman doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.13	Cite
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155-170	Chapter 9 ‘Bugge-Beares’ Or ‘Bouquets’?: Translations of the Latin Quotations in Florio’s and Gournay’s Versions of the Essais Valerie Worth-Stylianou doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.14	Cite
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171-186	Chapter 10 Montaigne Beyond the Rhine: the Essais in the Work of Christoph Besold John O'Brien doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.15	Cite
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187-202	Chapter 11 Isaac D’israeli, Reader of Montaigne Ingrid A. R. de Smet doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.16	Cite
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203-222	Chapter 12 ‘Le Demi-Sourire De Montaigne’: Flaubert and the Journal De Voyage Timothy Chesters doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.17	Cite
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223-238	Chapter 13 A Disagreeing Likeness: Michel De Montaigne, Robert Burton, and the Problem of Idiosyncrasy Kathryn Murphy doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.18	Cite
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239-252	Chapter 14 Montaignian Moments: Shakespeare and the Essays Colin Burrow doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.19	Cite
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253-262	Afterword Ian Maclean doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.20	Cite
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263-265	Index of Names Neil Kenny, Richard Scholar, Wes Williams doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.21	Cite
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266-268	Index of Chapters of the Essais Neil Kenny, Richard Scholar, Wes Williams doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0rb.22	Cite
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Edited by Neil Kenny, Richard Scholar and Wes Williams

Montaigne in Transit
Essays in Honour of Ian Maclean