Consumption proved - the essayists agree - both a crucial determinant and an expression of identity.
For one prize-winning essayist, this international audience was to serve as a reminder of a shared genetic ancestry and collective linguistic capacity.
The level of detail and empirical caution foregone in the essayist's broad sweep is especially unsettling.
This is a vast subject whose surface is only scratched by the essayists.
The essayists comprise historians, philosophers, literary scholars, and political scientists.
The ' all-star ' cast of essayists and editors has provided readers with a volume to stimulate thinking about genre and cultural transformation among scholars of antiquity.
And how did women poets and essayists take part in the political discussion?
However, the essayist was careful to qualify this celebration of wealth.
