The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe
Volume Two: The Reader-Writer
Warren Boutcher
Reviews and Awards
"...elaborate..." -- Zachary S. Schiffman, Journal of Modern History
"[Boucher] gives us an in-depth account of Montaigne's literary influence across the Western world from the sixteenth century to the present day." -- Patrick J. Murray, Times Literary Supplement
"Boutcher follows Montaigne and his Essais around Europe, and constructs as he goes an intricate, learned, and very readable reassessment of early modern authorship which scrupulously locates Montaigne's practice within a mobile portrait of contemporary norms...the work offers much of interest to scholars of Elizabethan literature and culture, not least as a case study in itself of an alternative mode of literary history." -- Harriet Archer, The English Association