The shock of the ancient [electronic resource] : literature & history in early modern France / Larry F. Norman.
Norman, Larry F.
2011
PQ251 .N67 2011eb
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Title The shock of the ancient [electronic resource] : literature & history in early modern France / Larry F. Norman.
Author Norman, Larry F.
ISBN 9780226591506 (electronic bk.)
9780226591483
0226591484
Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 288 p.)
Call Number PQ251 .N67 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 840.9/004
Summary The cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns served as a sly cover for more deeply opposed views about the value of literature and the arts. One of the most public controversies of early modern Europe, the Quarrel has most often been depicted as pitting antiquarian conservatives against the insurgent critics of established authority. The Shock of the Ancient turns the canonical vision of those events on its head by demonstrating how the defenders of Greek literature--rather than clinging to an outmoded tradition--celebrated the radically different practices of the ancient.
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Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-277) and index.
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Experiencing antiquity
Historical sensibility
Whose ancients and moderns?
Asserting modernity
Splintered paths of progress
Antiquity without authority
The shock
Why the scandal?
Modernity and monarchy
The pagan menace
Morality and sociability
The ancients respond
Aesthetics: the geometric and the sublime
Philosophy's turn
The ineffable effect
After the quarrel.

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