Ancients Against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siecle

by Joan DeJean

Book Overview

As the end of the century approaches, many predict our fin de si cle will mirror the nineteenth-century decline into decadence. But a better model for the 1990s is to be found, according to Joan DeJean, in the culture wars of France in the 1690s--the time of a battle of the books known as the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns.

DeJean brilliantly reassesses our current culture wars from the perspective of that earlier fin de si cle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226141381
• ISBN13: 9780226141381
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"