Learning to Curse

Essays in Early Modern Culture

Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University, USA)

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English

Routledge
26 February 2007

Sociolinguistics; Historical & comparative linguistics; Literary theory; History; History of ideas; Anthropology

Series: Routledge Classics

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.

By: Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9780415771603
ISBN 10: 0415771609
Series: Routledge Classics
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 26 February 2007
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stephen J. Greenblatt, the pioneer of the new historicist approach to literature, is currently John Cogan Professor of Humanities at Harvard University and the author of the recent bestselling life of Shakespeare, Will in the World.

Reviews for Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture

'Greenblatt writes with modest elegance, is a superb scholar and researcher, and deserves his status as the first voice in Renaissance studies today.' - Virginia Quarterly Review