On the Familiar Essay

1. The Observing Self, or Writing Upon Something: The Character, Art, and Distinctiveness of the Familiar Essay
G. Douglas Atkins

2. On Time, the Familiar, and the Essay
G. Douglas Atkins

3. Envisioning the Stranger’s Heart
G. Douglas Atkins

4. E.B. White and the Poetics of Participation
G. Douglas Atkins

5. “The Way Life Should Be,” or the Maine-ing of Existence: E.B. White as Familiar Essayist
G. Douglas Atkins

6. The Limits of the Familiar: E.B. White and T.S. Eliot
G. Douglas Atkins

7. Toward a Familiar Literary Criticism
G. Douglas Atkins

8. Of Swords, Ploughshares, and Pens: The Return of/to Civility, Against Winning, and the Art of Peace
G. Douglas Atkins

9. The Essay in the Academy: Between “Literature” and “Creative Writing”
G. Douglas Atkins

10. Essaying to Be: Higher Education, the Vocation of Teaching, and the Making of Persons
G. Douglas Atkins

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Social Sciences, general