The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. The book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic. This title tells the story of this discovery.
[This] concise, learned and fluently written book tells a remarkable story * Sunday Times *
More wonderfully illuminating Renaissance history from a master scholar and historian (starred review) * Kirkus Reviews *
[A] superb history.. This concise, learned and fluently written book tells a remarkable story... Highly skilled, close-focus readings of moments of great cultural significance are Stephen Greenblatt's speciality -- Charles Nicholl * Observer *
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 *
[A] superbly readable piece of historical work...an exciting story, and Greenblatt tells it with his customary clarity and verve -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst * Daily Telegraph *
More wonderfully illuminating Renaissance history from a master scholar and historian (starred review) * Kirkus Reviews *
[A] superb history.. This concise, learned and fluently written book tells a remarkable story... Highly skilled, close-focus readings of moments of great cultural significance are Stephen Greenblatt's speciality -- Charles Nicholl * Observer *
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 *
[A] superbly readable piece of historical work...an exciting story, and Greenblatt tells it with his customary clarity and verve -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst * Daily Telegraph *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224078788 |
| ISBN 10 | 022407878X |
| Title | The Swerve |
| Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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