Quote Sources
The quotations about the essay at the foot of each page at chrisarthur.org were taken from the following sources:
- Graham Good, The Observing Self: Rediscovering the Essay, Routledge, London: 1988, p.182
- T.W. Adorno, "The Essay as Form", translated by Bob Hullot-Kentnor & Frederic Will, New German Critique, Vol.32 (1984), p.169
- Susan Orlean (ed.), The Best American Essays 2005, Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 2005, p.xvii
- Lydia Fakundiny, Discoveries (John S. Knight Writing Program, Cornell University), Fall 1995 no.1, editor's note, p.6
- Susan Sontag (ed.), The Best American Essays 1992, Ticknor & Fields, New York, p.xv
- Paul Heilker, The Essay: Theory and Pedagogy for an Active Form, National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana Illinois: 1996, p.17
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis, "f-Words: An Essay on the Essay", American Literature, Vol.68 no.1 (1996), p.29
- Paul Graham, "The Age of the Essay", in Carl H. Klaus & Ned Stuckey-French (eds.), Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time, Iowa University Press, Iowa City: 2012, p.176. Graham's essay can also be found here.
- Ariel Levy, "Introduction", in Ariel Levy (ed.) The Best American Essays 2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston & New York: 2015. p.xv
- Cynthia Ozick (ed.), The Best American Essays 1998, Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 1998, p.xv
- Richard Chadbourne, "A Puzzling Literary Genre: Comparative Views of the Essay", Comparative Literature Studies, Vol.20 no.1 (1983), p.149.
- Alexander Smith, Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country, Strahan & Co., London: 1863, p.27
- G. Douglas Atkins, Estranging the Familiar: Toward a Revitalized Critical Writing, University of Georgia Press, Athens GA: 1992, p.153
- Robert Atwan writing in the Foreword to Joyce Carol Oates (ed.), The Best American Essays 1991, Ticknor & Fields, New York: 1991, p.x
- Susan Sontag (ed.), The Best American Essays 1992, Ticknor & Fields, New York, p.xv
- Fernand Ouellette, "Ramblings on the Essay", in Carl H. Klaus & Ned Stuckey-French (eds.) Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City: 2012, p.95.
- Carl Klaus, Chris Anderson & Rebecca Faery (eds.), In Depth: Essayists for our Time, Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, San Diego: 1990, p.3
- Georg Luckács, Soul and Form, tr.Anna Bostock, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA: 1974, p.7
- Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day, Viking/Penguin, New York: 2018, p.154
- Mario Aquilina, “Thinking the Essay at the Limits,” in Mario Aquilina (ed.), The Essay at the Limits: Poetics, Politics and Form, Bloomsbury Academic, London: 2021, p.6