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No Island Is an Island
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No Island Is an Island Hardcover - 2000

by Ginzburg, Carlo

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From the author of "The Cheese and the Worms" comes a quartet of luminous explorations into English literature, from Sir Thomas More to Robert Louis Stevenson. 14 illustrations.

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  • Title No Island Is an Island
  • Author Ginzburg, Carlo
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
  • Date 2000-11-14
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0231116284.G
  • ISBN 9780231116282 / 0231116284
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.31 x 5.75 x 0.72 in (18.57 x 14.61 x 1.83 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Difference (Psychology) in literature, English literature - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00035844
  • Dewey Decimal Code 820.935

From the jacket flap

In No Island Is an Island, and internationally renowned historian approaches four works of English literature from unexpected angles. Following in the footsteps of a sixteenth-century Spanish bishop we gain a fresh view of Thomas More's Utopia. Comparing Bayle's Dictionary with Tristram Shandy we suddenly enter into Laurence Sterne's mind. A seemingly narrow dispute among Elizabethan critics for and against rhyme turns into an early debate on English national identity. Robert Louis Stevenson's story "The Bottle Imp" throws a new light on Bronislaw Malinowsky's attempts to discover meaning in the "kula" trading system among the Trobriand Islanders. Throughout, Ginzburg's inquiry is informed by his unique microhistorical sensibility, his attention to minute detail, and his extraordinary synthesizing imagination.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 10/01/2000, Page 95
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2001, Page 185

About the author

Carlo Ginzburg's work has been published in eighteen languages. He teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is the Franklin D. Murphy Chair of Italian Renaissance Studies. His books in English include The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, and Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches'Sabbath.