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  1. The Battle of the Books
    History and Literature in the Augustan Age
    Published: [2018]; © 1994
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    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... more

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    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. He skillfully examines how both sides wrote their own brands of history: The moderns, led by Richard Bentley, proposed that the "modern" inventions of classical scholarship and archaeology gave them a superior insight into the past; the ancients, marshaled by Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, held out for a more direct imitation of antiquity and opposed the new scholarship with all the force of their satire and invective. Levine demonstrates that the ancients and the moderns influenced each other in powerful ways, and had much more in common than they knew. Chronicling a critical episode in the development of modem scholarship, The Battle of the Books illuminates the roots of present-day controversies about the role of the classics in the curriculum and the place of the humanities in education

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501727641
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    Subjects: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General; Querelle des anciens et des modernes; Kultur; Literatur; Geschichte <Motiv>; Englisch; Geschichtsschreibung; Literaturtheorie
    Scope: 1 online resource, 12 halftones
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  2. The Battle of the Books
    History and Literature in the Augustan Age
    Published: [2018]; © 1994
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    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... more

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    TH-AB - Technische Hochschule Aschaffenburg, Hochschulbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Hochschule Landshut, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Bibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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    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. He skillfully examines how both sides wrote their own brands of history: The moderns, led by Richard Bentley, proposed that the "modern" inventions of classical scholarship and archaeology gave them a superior insight into the past; the ancients, marshaled by Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, held out for a more direct imitation of antiquity and opposed the new scholarship with all the force of their satire and invective. Levine demonstrates that the ancients and the moderns influenced each other in powerful ways, and had much more in common than they knew. Chronicling a critical episode in the development of modem scholarship, The Battle of the Books illuminates the roots of present-day controversies about the role of the classics in the curriculum and the place of the humanities in education

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501727641
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General; Querelle des anciens et des modernes; Kultur; Literatur; Geschichte <Motiv>; Englisch; Geschichtsschreibung; Literaturtheorie
    Scope: 1 online resource, 12 halftones
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

  3. The battle of the books
    history and literature in the Augustan Age
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y

    "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... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
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    "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."--Jacket 1. Wotton vs. Temple -- 2. Bentley vs. Christ Church -- 3. Stroke and Counterstroke -- 4. The Querelle -- 5. Ancient Greece and Modern Scholarship -- 6. Pope's Iliad -- 7. Pope and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns -- 8. Bentley's Milton -- 9. History and Theory -- 10. Ancients -- 11. Moderns -- 12. Ancients and Moderns.

     

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  4. The battle of the books
    history and literature in the Augustan Age
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y

    "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... more

    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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    "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."--BOOK JACKET 1. Wotton vs. Temple -- 2. Bentley vs. Christ Church -- 3. Stroke and Counterstroke -- 4. The Querelle -- 5. Ancient Greece and Modern Scholarship -- 6. Pope's Iliad -- 7. Pope and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns -- 8. Bentley's Milton -- 9. History and Theory -- 10. Ancients -- 11. Moderns -- 12. Ancients and Moderns

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0801425379; 0801481996; 1501727648; 9780801425370; 9780801481994; 9781501727641
    RVK Categories: HK 1071 ; HK 1031 ; HK 1081 ; NB 5450
    Subjects: Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of; Historiography; English literature; Classical literature; Classicism; Classical literature; Criticism; Comparative literature; Comparative literature
    Other subjects: Augustus Emperor of Rome (63 B.C.-14 A.D)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 428 pages), illustrations, map
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    Includes bibliographical references and index