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The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age

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Description for The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2AB; DSBB; DSBD; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 650.

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 excited the English world of letters from 1690 until the 1730s was, Levine shows, an installment in the long-standing debate about the relationship of classical learning to modern life.

Levine argues that the debate was fundamentally a quarrel about the rival claims of history and literature concerning the proper way to understand the authors of the past. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801481994
SKU
V9780801481994
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About Joseph M. Levine
Joseph M. Levine is Professor of History at Syracuse University.

Reviews for The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age
The existence of this book is testimony that victory went to the moderns, for Levine's work exemplifies extensive, thoughtful and scrupulously documented use of source materials in the best philological tradition... Ideas about literature in this period-and the history of its history-have never been in sharper focus.
The Eighteenth Century

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