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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.

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Preface Acknowledgments Ch. 1: Did the Seventeenth Century Create Our Fin de Siecle? or, The Making of the Enlightenment That We May at Last Be Leaving Behind Ch. 2: The Invention of a Public for Literature Ch. 3: A Short History of the Human Heart Ch. 4: Culture or Civilization? Notes References Index

Ancients Against Moderns Culture Wars the

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/02/1997
      ISBN13: 9780226141374, 978-0226141374
      ISBN10: 0226141373
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      Literary studies: general History: theory and methods

      Description

      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.

      Table of Contents
      Preface Acknowledgments Ch. 1: Did the Seventeenth Century Create Our Fin de Siecle? or, The Making of the Enlightenment That We May at Last Be Leaving Behind Ch. 2: The Invention of a Public for Literature Ch. 3: A Short History of the Human Heart Ch. 4: Culture or Civilization? Notes References Index

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