Ancients Against Moderns Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siecle

Name: Ancients Against Moderns Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siecle
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ISBN: 9780226141374

ISBN-10: 0226141373

ISBN-13: 9780226141374

Edition: 1996

Authors: Joan DeJean

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As the end of the century approaches, many predict our fin de siegrave;cle will mirror the nineteenth-century decline into decadence. But a better model for the 1990s is to be found, according to Joan DeJean, in the culture wars of France in the 1690s--the time of a battle of the books known as the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns. DeJean brilliantly reassesses our current culture wars from the perspective of that earlier fin de siegrave;cle (the first to think of itself as such), and rereads the seventeenth-century Quarrel from the vantage of our own warring "ancients" and "moderns." In so doing, DeJean shows that a fin de siegrave;cle taking place in the shadow of culture…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/15/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 236
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Did the Seventeenth Century Create Our Fin de Siecle? or, The Making of the Enlightenment That We May at Last Be Leaving Behind



The Invention of a Public for Literature



A Short History of the Human Heart



Culture or Civilization?


Notes


References


Index