What do historians think about the narrative laid out in Greenblatt's "The Swerve?"

by FrontInformation9

"The Swerve" sounds exciting. It got a lot of acclaim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swerve. It won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Interestingly, I can only find one thread about it, and the thread was upvoted once but never commented on: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2c098h/greenblatts_the_swerve/.

I read this thread about "grand narratives" and it gave me a healthy skepticism about whether popular books are always able to capture all of the complexity: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1k6cf5/are_there_any_grand_theories_of_history_that/.

Stormtemplar

I wrote about this book here (u/stormtemplar because automod will yell at me). The long and short of it is "it's very bad," but if you have any more specific questions I can give it a go.