1 MONTAIGNE STUDIES
An Interdisciplinary Forum
428 Herter Hall, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003 USA (413) 545-0900

Editor-in-Chief for 1989 and 1990:
Philippe Desan
University of Chicago
Advisory Board.• Floyd Gray
University of Michigan
Eva Kushner victoria University Steven
Kendall University of Oregon
Robert Cottrell
Ohio State University
François Rigolot
Princeton University
Until June 30 1990, manuscripts may be sent to Professor Philippe Desan, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Univer- sity of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637. Alter June 30, 1990, manuscripts should be sent to Professor Robert Cottr+ell, Department of French and Italian, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210. Members of the Editorial Board as well as those of the Advisory Board are encouraged to contact the current Editor-in-Chief in order to suggest topics and exchange ideas for future theme publications and to submit papers for publication. A new Editor-in-Chief will be elected every one or two years by the members of the Editorial Board.
Copies of the journal may be purchased from Hestia Press, P.O. Box 998, 559 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002.
Editorial Board.•
Cathleen Bauschatz
Barbara Bowen
Jules Brody
Tom C. Conley
Charlotte Costa Kleis
Robert Cottrell
Betty J.Davis
Gérard Defaux
Philippe Desan
Gabrielle Divay
Colin Dickson
William Engel

Sue Farquhar
Michael Giordano
Floyd Gray
Marcel Gutwirth
Patrick Henry
Constance Jordan
Dalia Judovitz
Lawrence D. Kritzman
Eva Kushner
Raymond La Charité
Élaine Limbrick
Kenneth Lloyd-Jones
Robert Melançon
Glyn Norton
John Nothnagle
François Paré
T. Anthony Perry
Michael Platt
Dora Polachek
Richard L. Regosin
Steven Kendall

Régine Reynolds-Cornell
François Rigolot
Mary Rowan
Randolph Runyon
David Schaefer
Donald Stone
Marcel Tetel
Gwendolyn Trottein
Marcelle Maistre Welch

Dana Zinguer
D i r e s to r- Tr e as ~ a -e r Daniel Martin
2 The Department of French and Italian at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst issues the scholarly joumal, MONTAIGNE
STUDIES, An Interdisciplinary Forum, under the direction of an
Editor-in-Chief, yearly elected among American scholars. The joumal is published and distributed by Hestia Press.
A related publication is a book on Montaigne, The Order of Montaigne's Essays (1989, 247 pages, 19 illustrations, cloth, acid- free payer, volume size 7 by 10 inches, $16.95), which is a collection of articles that were pn~ented at the Intemationa/ Montaigne Colla quium held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on Octo- ber 6-8, 1988. The articles were selected around the central theme of the physical organization of the chapters (essays) in Book Three of the Essays. This volume is published and distributed for the Depart- ment of French and Italian, UMass-Amherst by Hestia Press. The International Colloquium celebrated the 400th anniversary of the first publication of Book Three in 1588. Reprints of this original 1580 edi- tion (Books I and II) and of the original 1588 (Book III) with notes and all the variants are available at Librairie Slatkine, Case Postale 765 - CH -1211 Geneva 3, Switzerland.
The joumal MONTAIGNE STUDIES is strongly interdisciplina- ry and welcomes a variety of approaches from difFerent disciplines and written in either French, Spanish, German, Italian or English. Contributors should follow the MLA style.
For subscriptions to MONTAIGNE STUDIES, please write to Professor Daniel Martin, Department of French and Italian, UMASS, Amherst, MA 01003. The cost of this Fust Issue, including shipment is $11.95.
Thanks are given here to Constance Spreen, Manuscript Editor, who skillfixlly assisted Professor Philippe Desan at the University of Chicago in the preparation of this First Issue.




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