Renaissance self-fashioning : from More to Shakespeare / Stephen Greenblatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Renaissance.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Summary:

AcknowledgmentsA Note on TextsIntroduction1. At the Table of the Great: More's Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation2. The Word of God in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction3. Power, Sexuality, and Inwardness in Wyatt's Poetry4. To Fashion a Gentleman: Spenser and the Destruction of the Bower of Bliss5. Marlowe and the Will to Absolute Play6. The Improvisation of PowerEpilogueNotesIndex

Contents:

1. At the table of the great : More's self-fashioning and self-cancellation

2. The word of God in the age of mechanical reproduction

3. Power, sexuality, and inwardness in Wyatt's poetry

4. To fashion a gentleman : Spenser and the destruction of the bower of bliss

5. Marlowe and the will to absolute play

6. The improvisation of power.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0226306542

9780226306544

OCLC:

16857987