The Victorian Fol Sage: Comparative Readings in Carlyle, Emerson, Melville and Conrad - Hardcover

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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.