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

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1997
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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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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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 236
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Chicago University Press
Published: 06 Mar 1997
ISBN 10: 0226141381
ISBN 13: 9780226141381