The Battle of the Books : : History and Literature in the Augustan Age / / Joseph M. Levine.
Joseph M. Levine provides a witty and erudite account of one of the most celebrated chapters in English cultural history, the acrimonious quarrel between the "ancients" and the "moderns" which Jonathan Swift dubbed "the Battle of the Books." The dispute that amused and...
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Levine, Joseph M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Battle of the Books : History and Literature in the Augustan Age / Joseph M. Levine. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1994 1 online resource (448 p.) : 12 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. LITERATURE -- 1. Wotton vs. Temple -- 2. Bentley vs. Christ Church -- 3. Stroke and Counterstroke -- 4. The Querelle -- 5. Ancient Greece and Modern Scholarship -- 6. Pope's Iliad -- 7. Pope and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns -- 8. Bentley's Milton -- PART TWO. HISTORY -- 9. History and Theory -- 10. Ancients -- 11. Moderns -- 12. Ancients and Moderns -- Conclusion -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Joseph M. Levine provides a witty and erudite account of one of the most celebrated chapters in English cultural history, the acrimonious quarrel between the "ancients" and the "moderns" which Jonathan Swift dubbed "the Battle of the Books." The dispute that amused and excited the English world of letters from 1690 until the 1730s was, Levine shows, an installment in the long-standing debate about the relationship of classical learning to modern life.Levine argues that the debate was fundamentally a quarrel about the rival claims of history and literature concerning the proper way to understand the authors of the past. He skillfully examines how both sides wrote their own brands of history: The moderns, led by Richard Bentley, proposed that the "modern" inventions of classical scholarship and archaeology gave them a superior insight into the past; the ancients, marshaled by Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, held out for a more direct imitation of antiquity and opposed the new scholarship with all the force of their satire and invective. Levine demonstrates that the ancients and the moderns influenced each other in powerful ways, and had much more in common than they knew. Chronicling a critical episode in the development of modem scholarship, The Battle of the Books illuminates the roots of present-day controversies about the role of the classics in the curriculum and the place of the humanities in education. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of. Classical literature Appreciation Great Britain. Classical literature History and criticism Theory, etc. Classicism Great Britain History 18th century. Comparative literature Classical and modern. Comparative literature Modern and classical. Criticism Great Britain History 18th century. English literature 18th century History and criticism. Historiography Great Britain History 18th century. England. History. HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501727641 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501727641 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501727641/original |
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