The Swerve
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A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance

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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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Superbly readable... An exciting story, and Greenblatt tells it with his customary clarity and verve
*Daily Telegraph*

Superb history ... this concise, learned and fluently written book tells a remarkable story
*Observer*

Dazzling
*Guardian*

In this outstandingly constructed assessment of the birth of philosophical modernity, renowned Shakespeare scholar Greenblatt deftly transports reader to the dawn of the Renaissance...Readers from across the humanities will find this enthralling account irresistible
*Library Journal*

More wonderfully illuminating Renaissance history from a master scholar and historian (starred review)
*Kirkus Reviews*

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