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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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1994 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 12 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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