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Michel de Montaigne
(1533-92)
French essayist
 3 other titles

Terence Cave
(1938-)
English critic
 1 other title

Legenda: Oxford, 2009
£45.00 ($89.50 US)  Hardback  162pp
ISBN: 978-1-905981-93-9

If the past is indeed a foreign country, then how can we make sense of its richness and difference, without approaching it on our terms alone? ‘Pre-histories’ and ‘afterlives’, methods that have emerged in recent work by Terence Cave, offer new ways of shaping the stories we tell of the past and the analyses we offer. In this volume, distinguished contributors engage in a dialogue with these two new critical methods, exploring their uses in a range of contexts, disciplines, languages and periods. The contributors are Terence Cave, Marian Hobson, Anna Holland, Neil Kenny, Mary McKinley, Richard Scholar, Kate E. Tunstall, and Wes Williams.

With the contributions:

Anna Holland, Richard Scholar — Introduction
Neil Kenny — Passions, Emotions, and Pre-Histories
Ben Morgan — Abandoning Selfhood with Medieval Mystics
Mary B. McKinley — From Cave to Choir: The Journey of the Sibyls
Anna Holland — Early Modern Swansongs
John O’Brien — ‘Ô Courbes, méandre...’: Montaigne, Epicurus, and the Art of Slowness
Kate E. Tunstall — Diderot and Montaigne: Portraits and Afterlives
Marian Hobson — Diderot’s Neveu de Rameau: Rear-Mirror View (I), or, Using What is in Front and in the Future to Understand What is Past
Wes Williams — Back to the Future: ‘Les Enfantements de Nostre Esprit’
Terence Cave — Epilogue. Time’s Arrow