Professor John O'Brien john.o'brien@durham.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor
Gournay’s Gift: A Special Presentation Copy of the 1595 Essais of Montaigne
O'Brien, John
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Abstract
A remarkable copy of the 1595 Essais of Montaigne at Maynooth offers a particularly full set of corrigenda in the hand of Marie de Gournay. Her many textual improvements are tabulated and their significance discussed. At the same time, this copy also carries an extensive manuscript emendation by Gournay to a crucial passage in Chapter II.17 of the Essais, as well as her handwritten inscription to a certain Beringhen. The dedicatee is identified as Henri de Beringhen and it is argued that Gournay’s corrections and inscriptions date from the early 1620s when she attended the salon of Beringhen’s aunt, Madame des Loges. The Maynooth copy as a whole provides a critical insight into the social and literary circles in which Gournay moved at the time as well as supplying further evidence of her continuing editorial work on the Essais in the framework of her own career.
Citation
O'Brien, J. (2014). Gournay’s Gift: A Special Presentation Copy of the 1595 Essais of Montaigne. The Seventeenth Century, 29(4), 317-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2014.974068
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Sep 29, 2014 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 3, 2014 |
Publication Date | Nov 3, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Dec 9, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 4, 2018 |
Journal | Seventeenth Century |
Print ISSN | 0268-117X |
Electronic ISSN | 2050-4616 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 29 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 317-336 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2014.974068 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1397864 |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The seventeenth century on 303/11/2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0268117X.2014.974068
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