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 fifteen 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.
A prize-winning author and celebrated scholar, he has been
studying, thinking and writing about Renaissance literature for his
entire working life.
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*
In this gloriously learned page-turner, both biography and
intellectual history, Harvard Shakespearean scholar Greenblatt
turns his attention to the front end of the Renaissance as the
origin of Western culture's foundation: the free questioning of
truth (starred review)
*Publishers Weekly*
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