- Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 288 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Shock of the ancient (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Shock of the ancient (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-277) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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 and sociability -- The ancients respond -- Aesthetics: the geometric and the sublime -- Philosophy's turn -- The ineffable effect -- After the quarrel.
- LCCN
- 2010032031
- OCLC
- ssj0000525668
- Author
Norman, Larry F.
- Title
The shock of the ancient [electronic resource] : literature & history in early modern France / Larry F. Norman.
- Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-277) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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