Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare - Softcover

Stephen Greenblatt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226306542 ISBN 13: 9780226306544

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1983

Synopsis

"A book which no one concerned with Western culture in or since the Renaissance should miss."--Richard Strier, Boundary 2

About this title

Review:

"One day we were teaching Renaissance literature to small groups of somewhat bored students, the next "Renaissance Self-Fashioning "had appeared, and suddenly studying the Renaissance was all the rage, exciting and new. Stephen Greenblatt's book entirely altered the critical landscape-showing with compelling lucidity that social anthropology and psychoanalysis were essential tools for understanding Renaissance writing. I can't think of any other critical work since T. S. Eliot to have made that kind of impact."

About the Author:

Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of many books, including Hamlet in Purgatory, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, and The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0226306542
• ISBN 13: 9780226306544
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332