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As the end of the 20th century approaches, many predict that it will mirror the 19th-century decline into decadence. The author of this text finds a closer analogy with the culture wars of France in the 1690s - a battle of the books known as the "Quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns".

Ancients against Moderns Culture Wars and the

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 15/03/1997
    ISBN13: 9780226141381, 978-0226141381
    ISBN10: 0226141381
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    ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: general History: theory and methods

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    Book Synopsis
    As the end of the 20th century approaches, many predict that it will mirror the 19th-century decline into decadence. The author of this text finds a closer analogy with the culture wars of France in the 1690s - a battle of the books known as the "Quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns".

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