Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. The Clarendon Lectures and the Carpenter Lectures, 1988 (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Marvelous Possessions 'Marvelous Possessions' examines the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New World. Full description
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his writing teems with apt insight (Financial Times)
a subtle, witty analysis of the "possessive madness" and sleight of mind by which Christian capitalism turned marvel into mandate. (Observer)
"Marvelous Possessions is a marvellous book. It is also a compelling and powerful one. Nothing so original has ever been written on European responses to "the wonder of the New World"."Times Literary Supplement
An extremely important literary critic, Stephen Greenblatt is the author of Shakespearean Negotiations (OUP/University of California Press, 1988; Clarendon Paperbacks, 1990), which won the 1988 James Russell Lowell Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association of America. His other works include Learning to Curse (Routledge, 1990), Renaissance Self-Fashioning (University of Chicago Press, 1980), and Sir Walter Ralegh (Yale UP, 1973).
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