{"product_id":"the-rise-and-fall-of-adam-and-eve-9780393356267","title":"The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, acclaimed scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores it with profound appreciation for its cultural and psychological power as literature. From the birth of the Hebrew Bible to the awe-inspiring contributions of Augustine, D rer, and Milton in bringing Adam and Eve to vivid life, Greenblatt unpacks the story's many interpretations and consequences over time. Rich allegory, vicious misogyny, deep moral insight, narrow literalism, and some of the greatest triumphs of art and literature: all can be counted as children of our \"first\" parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreenblatt, Stephen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eStephen Greenblatt\u003c\/strong\u003e (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Norton Anthology of English Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, he is the author of eleven books, including \u003cem\u003eTyrant, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story that Created Us, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Swerve: How the World Became Modern\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize); \u003cem\u003eShakespeare's Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eWill in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eHamlet in Purgatory\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eMarvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eLearning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eRenaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e. He has edited seven collections of criticism, including \u003cem\u003eCultural Mobility: A Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e, and is a founding coeditor of the journal \u003cem\u003eRepresentations\u003c\/em\u003e. His honors include the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize, for both \u003cem\u003eShakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Swerve\u003c\/em\u003e, the Sapegno Prize, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50565835424018,"sku":"9780393356267","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fc0b5bd0-a249-4d24-9565-9f64c6d1779c.jpg?v=1731888684","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-rise-and-fall-of-adam-and-eve-9780393356267","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}