Marvelous Possessions : The Wonder of the New World. The Clarendon Lectures and the Carpenter Lectures 1988

ISBN-13: 9780198122661 / Angielski

Stephen J. Greenblatt

Opis

This study examines the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New World.

Recenzje

"Marvelous Possessions is a marvellous book. It is also a compelling and powerful one. Nothing so original has ever been written on European responses to "the wonder of the New World"." Times Literary Supplement

O autorze

An extremely important literary critic, Stephen Greenblatt is the author of Shakespearean Negotiations (OUP/University of California Press, 1988; Clarendon Paperbacks, 1990), which won the 1988 James Russell Lowell Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association of America. His other works include Learning to Curse (Routledge, 1990), Renaissance Self-Fashioning (University of Chicago Press, 1980), and Sir Walter Ralegh (Yale UP, 1973).