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The shock of the ancient : literature and history in early modern France
- Title
- The shock of the ancient : literature and history in early modern France / Larry F. Norman.
- Author
- Norman, Larry F.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 288 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 & sociability -- The ancients respond -- Aesthetics: the geometric & the sublime -- Philosophy's turn -- The ineffable effect -- After the quarrel.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-1095
- ISBN
- 9780226591483 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226591484 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010032031
- OCLC
- 652743746
- Author
- Norman, Larry F.
- Title
- The shock of the ancient : literature and history in early modern France / Larry F. Norman.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-1095