Title: Encyclopedia of the essay /
Authors: Chevalier, Tracy
Publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Essay Encyclopedias.; Essay History and criticism Encyclopedias.
Abstract: "This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies."--"Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles", American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.
Contents: Chinua Achebe -- Joseph Addison -- Theodor W. Adorno -- The Adventurer -- James Agee -- Die Akzente -- Alain -- Josefa Amar y Borbon -- American essay -- The American Scholar -- The anatomy of melancholy -- Alfred Andersch -- Aphorism -- Apothegm -- German Arciniegas -- Hannah Arendt -- Areopagitica -- Matthew Arnold -- Athenaum -- The Atlantic Monthly -- W.H. Auden -- Australian essay -- Autobiographical essay -- Francisco Ayala -- Manuel Azana -- Azorin -- Francis Bacon -- James Baldwin -- Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac -- Stanislaw Baranczak -- Roland Barthes -- Georges Bataille -- Charles Baudelaire -- Pierre Bayle -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Max Beerbohm -- Vissarion Belinskii -- Andre Belleau -- Andres Bello -- Hilaire Belloc -- Andrei Belyi -- Robert Benchley -- Julien Benda -- Frans G. Bengtsson -- Walter Benjamin -- Gottfried Benn -- Max Bense -- A.C. Benson -- Georges Bernanos -- Wendell Berry -- Biography and the essay -- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Aleksandr Blok --^