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For a special issue of Montaigne Studies, guest editor Todd Reeser (University of Pittsburgh) invites abstracts on the topic “Montaigne, Affect, Emotion.”

This issue aims to consider how affect and emotion are constructed, languaged, or expressed in Montaigne. How are cultural or ancient discourses of emotion expressed or transformed? What are emotions or passions for the essayist? How are they in motion? What is the role of Stoicism, Skepticism, or other schools of thought? What of ineffable or inexpressible affect? How it is it put into language or narrated? What is the role of the body? How do larger discussions of emotion and affect in the Humanities (e.g. the history of emotions, affect theory) relate to Montaigne? How do the Essais challenge the idea that Spinoza is the originary thinker of affect? What would it mean to incorporate Montaigne into the “affective turn”? How does Montaigne influence later thinkers on these topics?

We seek contributors from literary studies, philosophy, history, theory, and other disciplines.

Submit abstracts (or expressions of interest) to reeser@pitt.edu by May 1, 2016. Completed papers will be due September 15, 2017 and will be published in winter 2018.

Articles may be in French or English, and should be 6,500-7,000 words (or about 43,000 characters, including spaces and footnotes).