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

9780226591506 (ebook) :

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2011.

1 online resource (viii, 288 p.) : ill.

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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. This book 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 world.

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September 22, 2015

Includes bibliographical references and index.