A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance
Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities
at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including
The Swerve- How the World Became Modern, which won the National
Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the New York Times
bestseller Will in the World- How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
and the classic university text Renaissance Self-Fashioning.
He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature
and of The Norton Shakespeare, and has edited seven collections of
literary criticism.
Superbly readable... An exciting story, and Greenblatt tells it
with his customary clarity and verve
*Daily Telegraph*
Superb history ... this concise, learned and fluently written book
tells a remarkable story
*Observer*
Dazzling
*Guardian*
In this outstandingly constructed assessment of the birth of
philosophical modernity, renowned Shakespeare scholar Greenblatt
deftly transports reader to the dawn of the Renaissance...Readers
from across the humanities will find this enthralling account
irresistible
*Library Journal*
More wonderfully illuminating Renaissance history from a master
scholar and historian (starred review)
*Kirkus Reviews*
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