The Trouble with Literature

ISBN-13: 9780198808749 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 208 str.

Victoria Kahn

Recenzje

Kahn's thesis is presented in a remarkably concise book which offers productive avenues for future thought. Kahn invites us to consider literature as a motive force behind the changing nature, across modernity, of belief itself.

O autorze

Victoria Kahn is the Katherine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance (Cornell University Press, 1985), Machiavellian Rhetoric: From the Counter-Reformation to Milton (Princeton University Press, 1994), Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 (Princeton University Press, 2004), and The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts (University of Chicago Press, 2014). She has edited Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature (Cornell University Press, 1993), Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe (Yale University Press, 2001), and Politics and the Passions (Princeton University Press, 2006).