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Author:

Norman, Larry F.

Title:

The shock of the ancient : literature and history in early modern France / Larry F. Norman.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

viii, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of.
France--Intellectual life--17th century.
Aesthetics in literature.
Criticism--France.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Experiencing antiquity -- Historical sensibility -- Whose ancients & moderns? -- Asserting modernity -- Splintered paths of progress -- Antiquity without authority -- The shock -- Why the scandal? -- Modernity & monarchy -- The pagan menace -- Morality & sociability -- The ancients respond -- Aesthetics : the geometric & the sublime -- Philosophy's turn -- The ineffable effect -- After the quarrel.

ISBN:

0226591484 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226591483 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)652743746

LCCN:

2010032031

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)