Thoughtful and erudite work [ ...] Nothing less than a stunning scholarly achievement [ ...] Above all, Scholars book shows how our drive to delineate the boundaries of the comprehensible must remain intrinsically connected to contemporary methods of inquiry and understanding, and why the early modern period is one of the most fruitful areas of inquiry for making this connection. * TEMS, H-France Review * Richard Scholar's book is a cheerful and exhaustive attempt to describe this phenomenon, readily - and consciously - embracing its inarticulability even while exploring nearly every corner of its territory...I applaud...Scholar's willingness, throughout the book, to attempt to explain something that by definition cannot be explained: as his own argument clearly shows, if you know what it is, it's not what you're looking for * David M. Posner, Renaissance Quarterly * [ a] wonderfully rich and challenging study of the je-ne-sais-quoi. It is extraordinary how [ ...] relatively little work has been done on the provenance and history of the term. This book fills the gap triumphantly, covering fields as diverse as theology, natural science, poetry, philosophy, and theatre * Nicholas Hammond, Modern Language Review * riveting...I try to keep an eye on the university press ads because occasionally great delights and surprises turn up ...The history of the je- ne-sais-quoi tells us a good deal about how human beings inhabit the world. * Jenny Diski, LRB * Richard Scholar's wonderfully rich and challenging study of the je-ne-sais-quoi ... the elegance, detail and...scholarship of Scholar's book. * Nicholas Hammond, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge *
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