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Harvard Book Store Friday Forum Series |
December 1, 2000 |
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Other books authored by Stephen Greenblatt * Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World
This collection of essays, encompassing history, literary criticism, art history, and anthropology, offers a fresh approach to the early encounter between European and American people and the discovery of the Indies. "This work is so solid, so elegantly presented, and at the same time so innovative that the book should attract considerable attention and remain in use for a long time."
Recipient of the British Council Prize in the Humanities for the best book in British studies by a North American scholar. "A book which no one concerned with Western culture in or since the Renaissance should miss." Richard Streier, Boundary 2
A sustained and powerful exemplification of situating cultural creation in history, offering a new way of understanding the power of Shakespeare's achievement, and an original analysis of cultural process. "The most intensely rewarding lit-crit book I've ever read." Scott L. Malcolmson, Voice Literary Supplement "An indispensible addition to our understanding of the structures of representation and response in Elizabeth and Jacobean culture." Times Higher Education Supplement
Books edited by Stephen J. Greenblatt The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Seventh Edition
Twenty-four leading scholars examine the major developments that have expanded the horizons of English & American literary studies during recent decades. (Co-edited with Giles Gunn) *by special order only. |
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Dr. Greeblatt will be the featured speaker at our Friday Forum on December 1st. Friday, December 1, 2000, 3pm |