On similitudes: Montaigne in Matthew Prior's Alma and the Late Dialogues of the Dead
This essay focusses on Matthew Prior’s intellectual debt to Montaigne in Prior’s late works. It argues that Prior’s literary scepticism cannot be considered as an unproblematic ‘inheritance’ of Montaigne’s philosophical position: by concentrating on the issues involved in the acts of ‘borrowing’ (Mo...
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University of Iowa
2016
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