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Book Title
Between the Ancients and Moderns: Baroque Culture in Restoration
ISBN
9780300079142
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Name
Between the Ancients and Moderns: Baroque Culture in Restoration England
Item Height
235mm
Author
Joseph M. Levine
Publisher
Yale University Press
Item Width
162mm
Subject
History
Item Weight
652g
Number of Pages
296 Pages

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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 imitate the classics and 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. Levine offers a nuanced account of the seventeenth-century climate of ideas by examining the careers and intellectual lives of four prominent individuals and setting them among their friends and enemies: diarist John Evelyn; poet, playwright, and critic John Dryden; exiled French aristocrat Sieur de Saint-Evremond; and scientist and architect Christopher Wren. He shows how each of these men began with a self-consciously modern position but after much vacillation ended by accepting a surprising dose of anciennete. In being among the first to explore these issues, argues Levine, these four men offered a prelude to the Battle of the Books and eighteenth-century neoclassicism. And in their uncertainty and anxiety they may also be seen as anticipating something of the later dilemmas of modernity.

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Yale University Press
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9780300079142
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Author
Joseph M. Levine
Publication Name
Between the Ancients and Moderns: Baroque Culture in Restoration England
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
296 Pages

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Item Height
235mm
Item Width
162mm
Item Weight
652g

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Joseph M. Levine
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