{"product_id":"the-edinburgh-companion-to-the-essay-9781474486026","title":"The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Edinburgh Companion to the Essay\u003c\/i\u003e distinguishes itself by the wide range and scope of its themes, voices and approaches. Thirty-five leading essayists, literary critics and writing instructors explore the essay from multiple perspectives, including its theories, forms and histories as well as its cultural, political and pedagogical contexts. In particular, the volume extends the theory of the essay by addressing topics such as the construction of an essayistic self and the political dimensions of essaying. It further explores the relationship between the essay and other forms, such as philosophical writing, the column, science writing, the novel, the lyric and the advert as well as the essay in digital spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMario Aquilina is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Malta, where he teaches and researches the essay, literary theory, Shakespeare and modernist literature. He has edited \u003ci\u003eThe Essay at the Limits: Poetics, Politics and Form\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) and authored \u003ci\u003eThe Event of Style in Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Aquilina has published widely on literature, literary theory and the essay in book chapters and in journals such as \u003ci\u003eOxford Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCahiers Elisabethains\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCounterText\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInterdisciplinary Literary Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eelectronicbookreview\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicole B. Wallack is the Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program and Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eCrafting Presence: The American Essay and the Future of Writing Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (Utah State UP, 2017). She is also a senior faculty associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College where she designs and leads professional development workshops and seminars for educators across disciplines and educational contexts. Wallack publishes and teaches in the fields of essay studies, writing studies, English education, and educational history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBob Cowser Jr. is Professor of English at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, where he has taught courses in nonfiction writing, film and American literature since 1998. He is the author of three nonfiction books and editor of a fourth, most recently \u003ci\u003eGreen Fields, Crime Punishment and a Boyhood Between\u003c\/i\u003e (UNO Press 2010), which won \"Best Memoir 2010\" from the Adirondack Center for Writers and was cited in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e. Cowser is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eWhy We're Here: Essayists on Living Upstate\u003c\/i\u003e (Colgate UP 2010) and serves as advisory editor to the online journal \u003ci\u003eASSAY: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50453400813842,"sku":"9781474486026","price":240.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a081abf1-3740-49b1-ac14-32ed797d3afd.jpg?v=1729845585","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-edinburgh-companion-to-the-essay-9781474486026","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}