{"product_id":"the-je-ne-sais-quoi-in-early-modern-europe-encounters-with-a-certain-something-9780199274406","title":"The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something","description":"What is the \u003cem\u003eje-ne-sais-quoi\u003c\/em\u003e, if it is indeed something at all, and how can it be put into words? In addressing these questions, Richard Scholar offers the first full-length study of the \u003cem\u003eje-ne-sais-quoi\u003c\/em\u003e and its fortunes in early modern Europe. He examines the expression's rise and fall as a noun and as a topic of philosophical and literary debate, its cluster of meanings, and the scattered traces of its \"pre-history.\" Placing major writers of the period such as Montaigne, Shakespeare, Descartes, Corneille, and Pascal alongside some of their lesser-known contemporaries, Scholar argues that the \u003cem\u003eje-ne-sais-quoi\u003c\/em\u003e serves above all to trace a series of first-person encounters with a certain something as difficult to explain as its effects are intense, and which can be expressed only by being expressed differently. He shows how the \u003cem\u003eje-ne-sais-quoi\u003c\/em\u003e comes to express that certain something in the early modern period, and suggests that it remains capable of doing so today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Scholar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199274406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Scholar is a Fellow \u0026amp; Tutor in French, Oriel College, Oxford. He was previously a Lecturer in French at the University of Durham and the Astor Junior Research Fellow of New College, Oxford.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45053393567859,"sku":"9780199274406","price":439.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_eaea8f7f-a07a-40b0-aa82-a6ff7f1f2082.jpg?v=1779969661","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-je-ne-sais-quoi-in-early-modern-europe-encounters-with-a-certain-something-9780199274406","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}