The shock of the ancient [electronic resource] : literature & history in early modern France / Larry F. Norman.

The shock of the ancient [electronic resource] : literature & history in early modern France / Larry F. Norman.

9780226591506 (electronic bk.)
9780226591483
0226591484

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

English

1 online resource (viii, 288 pages)

PQ251 .N67 2011eb

840.9/004

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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-277) and index.

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