The Victorian Fol Sage

The Victorian Fol Sage
Author: Camille R. La Bossière
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1989
Genre: American prose literature
ISBN: 9780838751459

In considering the responses of Carlyle, Emerson, Melville, and Conrad to Montaigne and to one another, this work focuses on the fundamental contradiction between wisdom and art and demonstrates that this contradiction impels the writing of the Essais and generates the Victorian sage's antic speculations.

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Author: English Dialect Society
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1881
Genre: English language
ISBN: