The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay

Provides a comprehensive overview of the essay, with a focus on current debates about the form Includes interviews with eight major contemporary essayists (Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine, Brian Dillon, David Shields, Leslie Jamison, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Robert Atwan and Jamaica Kincaid)Explores the theory, history, formal features and political contexts of the essayFocuses on the contemporary essay while also surveying the key moments and essayists in the history of the essayExtends the theory of