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Neil Kenny Author & Editor

Neil Kenny is Reader in Early Modern French Literature and Thought, University of Cambridge.

Montaigne in Transit cover

Montaigne in Transit

3 contributors - Paperback

£10.99

An Introduction to 16th-century French Literature and Thought cover

An Introduction to 16th-century French Literature and Thought

Neil Kenny - Paperback

£23.99

Death and Tenses cover

Death and Tenses

Neil Kenny - Hardback

£115.00

Born to Write cover

Born to Write

Neil Kenny - Hardback

£112.50

Text, Knowledge and Wonder in Early Modern France: Studies in Honour of Stephen Bamforth cover

Text, Knowledge and Wonder in Early Modern France: Studies in Honour of Stephen Bamforth

Neil Kenny - Paperback

£19.99

The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany cover

The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany

Neil Kenny - Hardback

£92.00

Retrospectives cover

Retrospectives

Neil Kenny - Hardback

£135.00

The Palace of Secrets cover

The Palace of Secrets

Neil Kenny - Hardback

£145.00

Literature, Learning, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe cover

Literature, Learning, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Neil Kenny - Hardback

£75.00

Retrospectives cover

Retrospectives

Neil Kenny - Paperback

£42.99