Between the ancients and the moderns : Baroque culture in Restoration England / Joseph M. Levine.

Main entry:

Levine, Joseph M., 1933-

Title & Author:

Between the ancients and the moderns : Baroque culture in Restoration England / Joseph M. Levine.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-270) and index.
John Evelyn and the two cultures -- John Dryden between the ancients and the moderns -- France and England : the Sieur de Saint-Evremond -- Christopher Wren and the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns.

Summary:

"The quarrel between the ancients and the moderns was an old dispute when it was resumed with special ferocity in the later seventeenth century as writers and artists, their friends and patrons, debated how far to risk the freedom to innovate. In this book Joseph M. Levine argues that it was this tension that gave unity to the cultural life of the period and helped define its baroque character. He also asserts that, contrary to public opinion, neither side won - even as modern superiority was being proclaimed in philosophy and the sciences, the precedence of the ancients was being reaffirmed in literature and the arts."--Jacket.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0300079141 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300079142 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Evelyn, John, 1620-1706 Diaries.
Dryden, John, 1631-1700 Criticism and interpretation.
Saint-Evremond, 1613-1703 Criticism and interpretation.
Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723 Criticism and interpretation.
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
Saint-Evremond, 1613-1703.
Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723.
Evelyn, John, 1620-1706 Criticism and interpretation.
English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.
Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of.
Baroque literature History and criticism.
Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes.
Littérature baroque Histoire et critique.
Baroque literature.
Civilization Classical influences.
Civilization French influences.
English literature Early modern.
Intellectual life.
Engels.
Letterkunde.
Barok.
Great Britain History Restoration, 1660-1688.
Great Britain Civilization French influences.
England Civilization Classical influences.
England Intellectual life 17th century.
Grande-Bretagne Histoire 1660-1688 (Restauration)
Grande-Bretagne Civilisation Influence française.
Angleterre Vie intellectuelle 17e siècle.
England.
Great Britain.
Great Britain Civilization Classical influences.

Form/genre:

History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Diaries.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 203401
Call No.: PR438.A53 L4 1999
Status: Available

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