Learning to Curse Essays in Early Modern Culture

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.Greenblatt, Stephen is the author of 'Learning to Curse Essays in Early Modern Culture', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415771603 and ISBN 0415771609.