Kahn Machiavellian Rhetoric

From the Counter-Reformation to Milton
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2128-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

KahnVictoria:

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).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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kahn, Victoria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Note on Spelling and Translations

Introduction 3

Pt. 1 Machiavelli 13

1 The Prince 18

2 The Discourses 44

3 Rhetoric and Reason of State: Botero's Reading of Machiavelli 60

Pt. 2 English Machiavellism 85

4 Reading Machiavelli, 1550-1640 93

5 Machiavellian Debates, 1530-1660 132

Pt. 3 Milton 167

6 A Rhetoric of Indifference 171

7 Virtue and Virtu in Comus 185

8 Machiavellian Rhetoric in Paradise Lost 209

Coda: Rhetoric and the Critique of Ideology 237

Appendix: A Brief Note on Rhetoric and Republicanism in the Historiography of the Italian Renaissance 243

Notes 249

Index 311

Über Autor(innen)

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).