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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsRenaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeareby Stephen Greenblatt
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance—More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare—and finds that in the early modern period new questions surrounding the nature of identity heavily influenced the literature of the era. Now a classic text in literary studies, Renaissance Self-Fashioning continues to be of interest to students of the Renaissance, English literature, and the new historicist tradition, and this new edition includes a preface by the author on the book's creation and influence. "No one who has read [Greenblatt's] accounts of More, Tyndale, Wyatt, and others can fail to be moved, as well as enlightened, by an interpretive mode which is as humane and sympathetic as it is analytical. These portraits are poignantly, subtly, and minutely rendered in a beautifully lucid prose alive in every sentence to the ambivalences and complexities of its subjects."—Harry Berger Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz Synopsis:"A book which no one concerned with Western culture in or since the Renaissance should miss."--Richard Strier, Boundary 2 About the AuthorStephen Greenblatt is the Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including, with Catherine Gallagher, Practicing New Historicism, published by the University of Chicago Press, and the recent Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Texts Introduction 1. At the Table of the Great: More's Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation 2. The Word of God in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 3. Power, Sexuality, and Inwardness in Wyatt's Poetry 4. To Fashion a Gentleman: Spenser and the Destruction of the Bower of Bliss 5. Marlowe and the Will to Absolute Play 6. The Improvisation of Power Epilogue Notes Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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