The shock of the ancient : literature & history in early modern France /
Norman, Larry F.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Experiencing antiquity -- Historical sensibility -- Whose ancients & moderns? -- Asserting modernity -- Splintered paths of progress -- Antiquity without authority -- The shock -- Why the scandal? -- Modernity & monarchy -- The pagan menace -- Morality & sociability -- The ancients respond -- Aesthetics: the geometric & the sublime -- Philosophy's turn -- The ineffable effect -- After the quarrel.
Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of.
Aesthetics in literature.
Criticism