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Learning to Curse

Learning to Curse

Essays in Early Modern Culture

by Stephen Greenblatt
Hardback
Publication Date: 21/12/2015

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Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it sprang. His approach - 'New Historicism' - drew from history, anthropology, Marxist theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis and in the process, blew apart the academic boundaries insulating literature from the world around it.

Learning to Curse charts the evolution of that approach and provides a vivid and compelling exploration of a complex and contradictory epoch.

ISBN:
9781138138452
9781138138452
Category:
Literature: history & criticism
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
21-12-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Routledge
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
196.85x133.35mm
Weight:
0.52kg
Stephen Greenblatt

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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