Victoria Kahn is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She is the author of
Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance (Cornell) and co-editor, with Albert Ascoli, of
Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature (Cornell).
5 Ebooks by Victoria Kahn
Victoria Kahn: Machiavellian Rhetoric
Historians of political thought have argued that the real Machiavelli is the republican thinker and theorist of civic virtù. Machiavellian Rhetoric argues in contrast that Renaissance readers were ri …
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€62.99
Victoria Kahn: Wayward Contracts
Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England? In Wayward Contracts, Victoria Kahn takes issue wi …
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€39.99
Victoria Kahn & Neil Saccamano: Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850
Focusing on the new theories of human motivation that emerged during the transition from feudalism to the modern period, this is the first book of new essays on the relationship between politics and …
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€47.99
Victoria Kahn: Trouble with Literature
This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2017, argues that the literature of the English Reformation marks a turning point in Western thinking about literature and literariness. But …
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€26.00
Victoria Kahn: Trouble with Literature
This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2017, argues that the literature of the English Reformation marks a turning point in Western thinking about literature and literariness. But …
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English
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€36.86
